So I’ve been back in the UK after spending some time in Geneva. There are the usual images to take from the city that one would expect: the jet of water that shoots about 500 feet in the air, the backdrop of snow-topped mountains, much of that sort.

Yet these aren’t the abiding images I have.

Here’s “Meddysong’s Top 3 Strange Sights In Geneva”:

3) I’m walking down a main street and pass a bookshop. I do a double-take, spin on the spot, and say to the missus: “Jesus! They’ve got a book on Madeleine McCann in the top spot … in Portuguese.”

2) On our final day there, the missus and I are strolling around trying to kill time, since we had to check out by 10:00 but not be at the airport (20 minutes away) till 15:10. “Stand under that shop sign”, I announce suddenly. “I wanna get a pic of you there!” She looks up at it, then clenches her fist in mock rage, replying “I think it’s more appropriate to have you in that photo.”

The shop happened to be called … Retardo.

1) The Genevois, as one would expect of any cultured people, don’t want to have their streets strewn with dog turds. They convey this sentiment in the easiest of manners; through a picture.

This would ordinarily make me snigger a tonne anyway, since someone actually went to the trouble of drawing a picture of a dog laying a cable, but what really sets this out enough to make it take the number-one slot is the curious fact that the height level at which they place these signs suggests that they are actually targetted at the dogs rather than at the owners.

Tags: Geneva, Holidays, Sights

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