Corseaux-Geneva-Toulouse Day 17

April 16 

Day 17  Corseaux-Geneva-Toulouse

We said our good-byes to Matt and Heather early this morning before catching way too many trains to get to Geneva.  Our plan was to visit CERN, home of the largest particle accelerator the LHC.  After dealing with a strange lady at the Geneva train station (who tried to buy our bus tickets for us) and finding out that we won't be able to reserve seats on our Marseille train due to the French strike, we caught our bus to CERN.  CERN was an interesting place and at 10:00 we began with a video and then one of the scientists took us to a station called Atlas where we saw one of the observation stations for the collisions occurring in a 27km tunnel 100m below us.  The scientist was funny and informative.  Unfortunately you can't see the LHC now because it's in operation and it just looks like a wall of metal apparently.  After our tour, we headed back to the train station to catch our train to Marseille.  Once in Marseille we thankfully got some free drinks offered by the train station (I needed something to drink so bad) and we went to talk to the train people to find out if our next days' train plans were going to work.  Our next train took us from Marseille to Toulouse where Trevor had booked a hotel right across the street from the train station.  That was all the travel for tonight and hopefully we get into Andorra tomorrow.