Day 61: Le Grand Finale to Geneva!

Saint-Jean-de-Sixt – Geneva 50.04km 🚴🏼‍♀️ 2.26.07 ⏱20.5km/hr ⬆️ 245m (Suuz 360m) ⬇️ 810m 🌡26C

Spoiler alert 🚨: we made it. We are in Geneva! We almost didn’t make it, when Mas’ back gave out trying to get out of the tent this morning. It was a very confusing day and we must say, it still is. We are very excited to be here, but it sucks. We can’t believe we made it, but we don’t want it to be over yet. We are really happy to go home 🏡, but we don’t want to yet.

So we had a very very slow start this morning. We even waited to let the soaked tent ⛺️ dry for a bit in the morning sun. It didn’t rain or anything it was just damp. We ordered bread 🥖 and croissants 🥐 at the campground 🏕 so we ate that over a coffee ☕️and a tea 🍵 (btw this tea emoji looks like it’s witch 🧙🏼‍♀️craft doesn’t it) and then postponed our departure even more with doing everything slow paced. But after wrapping up the tent and packing the rest of the stuff to the bikes we really did had to go. It’s only about 50 kilometres to Geneva and it’s mostly downhill so it’s probably not going to take a lot of time. As you can see above, and since I’m writing this after we are done I can confirm, it did not take a lot of time.

So once on the bike we went down. For a long time we only went downhill. Apparently we saved up quite some meters above sea level and we needed to go down quite a lot of them. It was really cold and since Mas was only wearing a tank top and refused to go change into something warmer, she lost her other nipple too. Well what didn’t help was that we were cycling in the near presence of our old friend mountain ⛰ shade. This time we didn’t really need him though but polite as we are we also can’t really tell him off. Once we were in the sun ☀️ and had to deal with some small climbs it got hot fast enough. The road we took for like the first hour, hour and a half was just gorgeous. Not too busy, nice surrounding, well paved, just the way we like it.

Still in France 🇫🇷 we stopped for a coffee ☕️ at what was obviously a motor home bar clubhouse thing. After we waited quite a while we just went in and ordered at the bar. Not knowing we had to pick it up ourselves either. No problem of course but it’s easier if you put a note 📝 somewhere or just let us know. Anyway, after Mas lay down on the wooden bench for a while and did some exercises for her back (yes she is getting old, and yes she is obviously not a tent ⛺️ person, and yes she does need to do her core exercises often, and no she did not do that the last two months), long sentence made short, we left. 

With only 20km more to go it got busier and after there was a lock down 🚧 on the road we had to take it got a little mental,but luckily it wasn’t too long before we took the exit to a much quieter road. Which had a rough incline of course. Our legs 🦵🏼can definitely use a little time off. Cause of this detour we first cycled all around Geneva before we circled into town. Close to the city there were all these bike paths and bike routes we could take so traffic was not of a problem anymore. Although there were the parts were bikes 🚲 and busses 🚌 share the same part of the road. Which is kind of ridiculous because busses 🚎 are our biggest enemies on the road. Once we cycled into Geneva and saw the first sign we stopped to take a picture, we have proof, we made it all the way to Geneva. Or we are just really good with photoshop. 

Suuz guided us to this Libanese place, Parfums de Beyrouth, to get a really tasty falafel lunch. We took the food to go and cycled to the lake and ate it on a bench overlooking the lake and the Mont Blanc 🏔. So there we are,this was it, wrap it up and go back home 🏡. Like we said, it’s a total weird mix of emotions. 

After lunch we cycled to the hotel 🏨 to check in and this took us more than an hour. It was absolutely ridiculous and so inefficient. But we made it to the hotel and our bikes are safely locked 🔒 in the parking garage of the hotel. Big question is if it takes them less than half an hour to find the key 🔑 when we check out. Our hotel is located in a street where they mostly rent rooms for an hour and where every corner of the street hosts one or more ladies who are in dire need of some more clothes. We followed their example, lost our clothes and jumped in the shower 🚿. 

A little later we got out to find ourselves a beer 🍺 and we did at this spot we didn’t know they had it in the Genève. We went there cause there was a bicycle 🚲 on the wall, how typical. It was kind of an alternative hidden place on the other side of the train 🚂 station that reminded us strongly of Berlin. If we weren’t high already from our whole trip, we definitely did some co-smoking over there. So we had a couple of beers 🍻 and went to a restaurant after for a celebratory dinner and some Swiss wine. 

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It was a good evening but we are just exhausted and jumped into bed 🛌 around 11 o’clock. Let’s say our street is very lively at night, but we had to open the windows to let in some air since it’s really hot in this room. We fell asleep anyway only to be awakened by the incredibly loud thunderstorm 🌩 right above our head.