Museum Hopper

also, while we were in geneva, we visited the musee d'art et d'historie .  it was a beautiful museum filled with art as well as artifacts about the history of geneva.   the museum was very easy to navigate.  it was basically built around a center hall with large rooms completely connected in a circle.  it was a few different levels, but it was a beautiful building.   we did the "greatest hits" tour of the museum.  it included a map with the locations of the paintings.  to be fair, we could not find two of the paintings!  we were in the rooms seeing artwork by the same painters and the "hits" seemed to be missing/gone!  it was an interesting museum.  all of the swiss painters were placed in the positions of prominence.  we had to search to find the monets, which were so beautiful.  i loved the peacefulness of their landscapes.   we also looked at the muskets and old swiss pottery.  very beautiful.   overall, a great visit! time in museum: 1 hr time

jason and i were recently in chamonix, france for a wedding and ended up visiting lyon, france and geneva, switzerland as well at the beginning of the trip.  when in geneva, you cannot miss the st-pierre cathedral .  it can be seen throughout town and was home to john calvin during the reformation. we climbed to the top of the church, which has a spectacular view of the lake geneva harbour.  we were able to get quite close to the old bells.  it also appeared that one of the towers was built later than the other given the difference in stone color.  the interior of the church was quite plain compared to catholic churches built at the same time due to its protestant denomination.   it did have a video regarding the history of the cathedral.  it spoke about its catholic roots, but how it became protestant.  i will say the video could be improved though!  it was composed primarily of black-and-white photographs or sketches and was shown on a grey wall!  how on ear