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 Posted: Nov 22, 2011 - 10:40 PM
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First post: Feb 15, 2011
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Location: Somewhere between the mountains and the sea.
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Posted: Nov 22, 2011 - 10:43 PM
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| Another thing, if you take the Ferney route, you actually drive over the Large Hadron Collider at CERN! |
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Posted: Nov 23, 2011 - 08:45 AM
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First post: Oct 07, 2004
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There's black holes there. I read it somewhere on the internet, so must be true.
Good find on that map. The dotted red line BTW.
Another thing you may find going out of the other side of Swiss customs, is an interest in your "smoking habits" as it's legal for Swiss citizens, but not for visitors. |
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Posted: Nov 23, 2011 - 08:56 AM
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We have a discount with AVIS, but it's 2-10% so still worth shopping around.
We hired a minibus from French Geneva several years ago for Chamonix for a pre-SCUK Bash.
The tax thing is a right PITA when you drive all of 10 miles in Switzerland. 40Euro sounds about right. |
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Posted: Nov 23, 2011 - 09:21 AM
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First post: Oct 28, 2008
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if you hire from the french side the sometimes have the vignette, sometimes they wont.
You wont get stung taking the vehicle from the airport to resort, but if you come over the main road back towards the airport they have put new with and without channels in so yo can no longer "innocently" trundle over the boarder without one. If you go back to the airport through the centre of geneva though chances are you'll be fine, i've never seen anyone get pinched there 
We always go that way on shopping trips  |
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Posted: Nov 23, 2011 - 09:40 AM
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I may be wrong, but I was under the impression that the carnet/vignette was only needed for Swiss motorways. If I am wrong, I've been lucky for 15 years! (Some of the wife's friends live in Geneva & we'd drive into Switzerland regularly.)
If you've got the time, a detour round the lake is nice. |
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Posted: Nov 23, 2011 - 10:06 AM
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they are yes, which is probably why i've never seen anyone get stopped at the other boarder haha
slightly off topic, but i really wana go and visit CERN, the other halfs not so keen  |
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Posted: Nov 23, 2011 - 10:15 AM
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First post: Feb 15, 2011
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Me too. The stuff they're doing there is mind-boggling!
I seem to remember there are one or two shops in Geneva which can attract the attentions of the Financial Controller for an afternoon! |
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Posted: Nov 23, 2011 - 10:21 AM
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First post: Oct 28, 2008
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| haha yeah, shopping in geneva's ok actually, we went last weekend actually. Need to get to cern before the lifts open otherwise it wont happen for a while! |
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