Geneva's Proclamation: We'll try everything once.

Boy it had all the markings of a great event... Street barricaded... Good beer before hand... Lots of people from all over the world, waiting to watch... but, Geneva's L'Escalade (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Escalade ) fell short of our expectations. Maybe I was nauseous from all the torch fumes, but it was really boring watching hundreds and hundreds of people dressed up in 1602 period clothing, filing into a square (30 minutes worth) to have someone pronounce (in French) their freedom from an oppressor (the Savoy) that is long gone.

This one cost about a 1,000 Francs

Ruth was lured to the event by the Chocolate Mirmates (chocolate pots filled with fruit shaped marzipan, which represents the soup pot that the much celebrated lady used to hit a soldier with in 1602). Ruth dreamed there would be free chocolate shards everywhere(!) –but found out that the cost of Mirmates was at least 75 Francs. Ruth, nothing is for free in Switzerland!