Switzerland trip: Day 1 (15.08.2009)

I arrived in Geneva around 2 pm by train (yup it's quite a long way from Duess), decided to go to the Youth Hostel (YH) with tram. I stayed in YH this time.. after some time..Switzerland is quite pricey and I don't want to spend 100EUR for staying at a normal hotel :-P.
I met and Italian man with his son at the tram stop close to the hostel. We are both looking for the YH and after some efforts to communicate to each other since he could only speak French (and Italian), we managed to find it.



My first destination is to go to the Red Cross museum which is located in United Nations area. Oh I got free two-day transportation tickets plus 50% disc of the Red Cross museum from the YH...nice... it's really wise to stay there :-P The museum was okay, a bit small but it has interesting collection. After that I headed to the city center for Jet d'Eau, the famous fountain of Geneva, and then walked around the old town. Initially I wanted to go to Cine de Lac (Orange cinema) which is a open cinema by the Geneva lake. I was there already actually but changed my mind since the movie played that day was in French :-P. I had dinner in Globus, eating a delicious Pad Thai (quite expensive though :-(), then returned to the YH around 11pm.