Spontaneity is the name of the game

As much as we loved Lyon, we knew there wasn't necessarily enough to do for two full days. So instead of sitting around, we headed to Geneva, Switzerland for the day!



We spent the day wandering around and eating some delicious chocolate of course!!



Our friend Stefanie Knight gave us a perfect itinerary for the day before we met up with her for dinner. We started at the United Nations headquarters, moved on to a great shopping area, and saw Geneva's old town area.






As we we're walking around we tried to find a way to describe Geneva and compare it to the other places we've been. The buildings looked French but not all of them. The food was a wide variety. There were some very modern looking buildings and streets contrasting with the older pieces. Basically we decided it looked and felt very Swiss, even though we have no idea what that means.


After all our wandering we met up with Stef and ate a delicious picnic of cheese, bread, meat, cherries, and wine along the lake.





It was a gorgeous day and we are so glad we decided to go! We were sad to be leaving this area, but Belgium has already been quite the adventure too.

We flew from Lyon to Brussels then headed straight to Antwerp. We're staying in Antwerp because all the hostels in Brussels were booked because of a music festival happening - which we will be attending!






We spent our first night in Belgium at a small Moroccan cafe next door to our hostel with an Australian boy we meet at our hostel and some locals watching the Spain v Portugal Euro Cup game. It's so fun watching soccer here in Europe because everyone is so vocal and excited the whole game.

These spontaneous experiences are my favorite part of travel and with only one week left, I'm going to fit in as many as I can!

Maggie

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