Switzerland
September 2006
I went to Switzerland for the Free And Open Source Software for Geoinformatics conference in September. The meetings were in Lausanne, which is on the north shore of Lake Geneva, about a 40 minute train ride from Geneva. I got to Switzerland a couple of days before the conference was set to begin, so a friend and I went to Zermatt to see the Matterhorn before the meetings started. We got to Zermatt late at night and had to leave in the early afternoon the next day, so we weren't there for long. I spent about a week in Lausanne for the conference after that. The conference was extremely good and I learned a ton. I also met a lot of new people from all over the world (too bad I haven't managed to keep in contact with any of them!). Fortunately, I was able to stay some extra time after the meetings and so I stayed in the charming alpine village of Mürren for a few days before heading back to Geneva to catch a plane home. I would love to go back to Switzerland, especially the Alps. What more could a person want than such beautiful mountains and a culture that values good cheese, chocolate and breads?