The Adventures of Wickse, Eric & Sharon: The Geneva Motor Show

The sun was really getting to the snow a bit and snow-forecast.com was predicting some fresh stuff in a week so thought that it would be a good time to drop out of the Alps for a bit and see some sights in the area. We’d seen that the motor show - "Salon International de l’Auto Genève" - was on so thought Geneva would make a nice break.

Very summer like weather when we left La Rosière and it was a strange driving down from the Alps. Slopes that were covered in snow on the way up were now barren and the thermostat was rising all the time. When we got to Annecy it was nearing 20 degrees! We decided to park up there for the night and wandered into town. Beautiful city and glad we’d dropped buy. We stayed the night there and had a lovely evening in the sunshine by the lake.

This was our second time in Geneva as we passed through on the way to the Alps, we didn’t quite know what to make of it as it looked really grubby, the return trip didn’t really change the impression but the motor show was well organised. I’d expected Sharon to have had enough of it after a couple hours but we ended up spending from 2-8pm - that’s 6 hrs ogling the amazing cars on display. In the end Sharon’s fave was the new Volvo C30 hatch and I couldn’t be kept away from the Audi R8. In this case, pictures speak louder than words...