Please Assist -Switzerland and Perhaps France 14 days
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Geneva is 95% surrounded by France -- 103 km bordering France and only 4.5 km bordering the rest of Switzerland. A lot of the other Swiss disparage Geneva as actually being part of France. This just makes it more interesting in my opinion.
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"A lot of the other Swiss disparage Geneva as actually being part of France"
I'm a Swiss citizen and I never heard about that.
There are some "flatteries" between Lausanne and Geneva, like:
"au bout du lac, ça râle toujours!"
"au bout du lac, il ne font que des genevoiseries (Swiss synomim for foolish acts)",
"Lausanne est une paysanne qui a fait ses maturités"
"les Vaudois ont un accent à couper"
"les Vaudois sont les Bernois parmi les Romands"
But no serious Swiss would call a Genevan "un sacré Gaulois" This pet name is used for French people only.
I'm a Swiss citizen and I never heard about that.
There are some "flatteries" between Lausanne and Geneva, like:
"au bout du lac, ça râle toujours!"
"au bout du lac, il ne font que des genevoiseries (Swiss synomim for foolish acts)",
"Lausanne est une paysanne qui a fait ses maturités"
"les Vaudois ont un accent à couper"
"les Vaudois sont les Bernois parmi les Romands"
But no serious Swiss would call a Genevan "un sacré Gaulois" This pet name is used for French people only.
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