> Annals > 2012 > Termini
> Annals > 2012 > Termini
Termini - Susan's picks from Geneva, Barcelona, France
Click a thumbnail to see larger pictures, one-by-one
Slideshow
Geneva - CERN, a bus tour, and the botanical garden
Fountain on Lake Geneva near the Rhone bridge A citizen of Geneva - 300th anniversary. Swans in Geneva near the Rousseau memorial at the middle of a bridge "Lawyer", "banker", "Fred", and "ad exec" share wine while Susan checks out the Rousseau memorial in the middle of a bridge over the lake in Geneva At CERN, the outside of the 4-story ATLAS control center is decorated with a schematic of the detector. Blue capsules detect muons.
The ATLAS control center at CERN is behind glass Fred with a model of the magnets used in the CERN supercollider. Geneva tram in background. The dome at CERN houses a unique multimedia display of CERN's mission and accomplishments. The blue tube is a section of the CERN accelerator ring. There are 9000 like it in the ring. It is curved by 2 millimeters. Here is Susan near an exhibit of a break in CERN's LHC ring. The two brass discs that form the "eyes" in the end of the tube are the cross section of the two actual accelerator tubes, one in each direction. Particles travel in a penny-sized hole through these tubes. Anti-land mine activists have installed this huge chair on the UN Plaza in Geneva. Its left-front leg has been decimated by a normal-size land mine.
Multi-ethnic school kids waiting to cross a street in the international city of Geneva "Subscribe! to all the emotion", as seen on our "train" ride through the old town of Geneva This bust of the founder of the International Red Cross ("Croix Rouge") graces the former site of public hangings in Geneva Each season the flower clock in Geneva is replanted with then-blooming flowers. All three hands keep time: hour, minute, and second. Our waitress at the Edelweiss fondue restaurant in Geneva. The fondue and folk music (Alpenhorn, cowbells) were touristy, but great.
St. Bernard rescues Fred in the Edelweiss restaurant, Geneva. No brandy - that's a "busted" myth.
Norwegian Spirit
Our ship, the Norwegian Spirit, moored in Mykonos harbor
Toulon harbor (we did not tour; and it rained)
The Riviera in the rain: beachfront in Toulon, France Yachts and fishing boats in Toulon Harbor
Barcelona - bus tours and MNAC museum
Gaudi "modernist" house in Barcelona Gaudi's La Sagrada Familia has been under construction for over a century, Barcelona Gaudi's La Sagrada Familia, from the front, Barcelona Ornate stonework, La Sagrada Familia Mega-multi communication tower, Mount Tibidabo, Barcelona
Barcelona from Mount Tibidabo. Norwegian Spirit-our recent home-is at the pier on the right. Tibidabo Cathedral del Sagrat Cor on Tibidabo Mountain overlooking Barcelona View of Pyrenees from Tibidabo Mountain, Barcelona Tibidabo Cathedral del Sagrat Cor and an amusement park on Tibidabo Mountain overlooking Barcelona Leaving Tibidabo, in both Spanish and Catalan
Saint Mary of the Sea in Tibidabo Cathedral del Sagrat Cor on Tibidabo Mountain overlooking Barcelona Station of the Cross, Cathedral del Sagrat Cor Welcome to TIbidabo Riding the funicular railway from atop Mount Tibidabo, Barcelona Street scene, Barcelona.
Baroque monument in the roundabout in Plaça d'Espanya near Barcelona's former bullfight arena Gothic altarpiece in Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC), Barcelona Magic Fountain of Montjuic from the front of Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC), Barcelona Susan likes the angles in this shot from the MNAC plaza, Barcelona Another view of the Palace
Dutch troubador singing beautifully in English, below MNAC plaza, Barcelona Palau National, home of Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC), Barcelona Mies van der Rohe pavillion, Barcelona. The anti-Gaudi. Posing in Mies van der Rohe pavillion, Barcelona Corre de Calatrava, communications tower for 1992 Olympics, Barcelona
Sculpture outside Joan Miro museum, Barcelona Gateway arch to Barcelona Port Statue of Columbus, Barcelona Harbor Old customs house, Barcelona Harbor
France, on the train from Barcelona back to Geneva
Pyrenees from the French-Spanish border Wind power looms over salt marsh in the Côte d'Azur, France Cathedral in Montpelier, France Farmland in the Haute Savoie Alps, France Farmland in the Haute Savoie Alps, France
Farmland in the Rhône Valley, France Farmland in the Rhône Valley, France, from the train Valence to Geneva
Ask ZweiBieren for full resolution pictures and screen savers.
 
Nov 13, 2013 22:45 GMT
Copyright © 2013 ZweiBieren, All rights reserved.