Walking the lakeshore in Geneva
Summary
Geneva is about as Alpine, fresh and clean a city as you can imagine. Sitting by the Lake Geneva shoreline and with the Alps surrounding it, its setting is quite simply beautiful; its streets all have the elegance of of what you’d imagine a world-city sitting on the border with France and Switzerland to look like; and the cosmopolitan feel with the likes of the WTO, WHO, Red Cross, World Bank HQs, and supposedly 180 nationalities living here, make it a truly cosmopolitan city
But . . . its a tad dull and far from the highlight of Switzerland. Give yourself half a day to wander along the lake shore and swim / paddleboard in the lake near the swans from the Bains des Paquis, and half a day if you can get a spot to see Large Hadron Collider at CERN, but no more
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Score Detail
Background - how many times have you asked someone what a travel experience was like and the response was "amazing" or "awesome"? That response is nice to know, but it makes it hard to differentiate that experience compared to others. That is exactly what these scores are trying to do - differentiate the experience by giving a score out of 10 based on 6 categories and then giving an overall experience score
This overall experience score is calculated by: take the highest of the "Culture" or "Nature" score (1-10) + "Fun factor" (1-10) + "Avoiding the crowds" (1-10) + highest of the "Unique" or "World Famous score" (1-10). Then convert into a score out of 100
Extra detail - the logic being that I find all of the 6 individual scores important, but I don't want to mark an experience down just because it doesn't cover both "Culture" and "Nature", or because it isn't both "World Famous" and "Unique". Take the examples of Safari in The Serengeti and walking through Rome - they both appeal at opposite ends of the nature / culture spectrum, and you can have a fantastic time without needing to appeal to both sides. So, their overall scores aren't penalized for their lack of one or the other, and I've done the same for "World Famous" vs "Unique". But . . . I do think that the "Fun factor" of an experience is important, irrelevant of other factors, and so is "Avoiding the Crowds" (or where there are crowds that add to the experience). So, both of these scores are standalone