Around The Hotel
The hotel was close to the cathedral in the Old City and there were plenty of bars and restaurants.
The restaurant was just round the corner.
It was all very convenient.
An Ideal Place For A Clock
In the hotel, they had this clock on the reception desk.
An Ideal Place For A Clock
I’ve never seen one like this before.
Note that it appears to be on a substantial chain!
Clear Naming Of Roads
Nearly every road in Geneva seemed to have a clear sign like this.
Clear Naming Of Roads
Coming from London, which has a similar policy, it annoys me, when I go places, where street names are non-existent.
It certainly made Geneva easy to navigate.
A Tangle Of Wires
I took this picture at a major traffic intersection in Geneva.
A Tangle Of Wires
I think it shows how in the future we’ll see more trams using battery technology and other wireless propulsion methods, like I saw in Seville.
Imagine sorting that mess out, if say it got torn down.
A Lost Bus!
This old bus was parked near the station in Geneva.
A Lost Bus!
Bonnybridge appears to be near Falkirk in Scotland.
CERN Humour
Research establishments are serious places, but it doesn’t mean they are humourless ones.
CERN Humour
When I worked at ICI’s Research Establishment on Runcorn Heath, the big joke was signs using the newly discovered Dymo machine in mock German.
When I was at Liverpool University in the mid-1960s, the old cyclotron that James Chadwick had built pointed towards the mound on which the Catholic Cathedral has now been built. One wag told me, that they weren’t going to floodlight the cathedral, as it would glow in the dark.
I heard a similar remark on Saturday.
Information Management: A Proposal
This T-shirt was worn by one of our guides to CERN.
Information Management: A Proposal
When it was first proposed, it got this reaction from the author’s superior/supervisor.
The Response
So who proposed the idea and what is it now called?
LHC Fabrication
These pictures show the plant, where the various sections of the LHC were assembled.
Although, the media portrays the LHC as a circle, it is in fact a series of straight sections.
CMS – Control Room Or Bar?
I just had to enquire about the bottles amongst this array of computer screens.
Each of the empty bottles is now identified with the event, they celebrate.
CMS – Back At The Surface
Back on the surface, we had another talk from a Liverpool University-educated Civil Engineer on the problems of building the CMS and other parts of CERN and the LHC.
Civil Engineering is one of the major disciplines, that must be applied to a high level at CERN. The engineer had previously worked on tunnels under London.
The Anonymous Widower 