Today I woke up at 5am in the middle of minus morning. My mom shocked me up, and get me replied bunch of emails for her. Yes, on holiday time I've been working as my mom secretary, as always. Thank God there's another wifi on my cousin apartment, so I could catch my stories with you. Morning bbm with Mikha and Effika made my morning actually.
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Warm sun was shining on my face while we're eating homey breakfast set in the kitchen. It was slow pretty morning. On 9am were getting ready, by 10am we hop on the tram number 14 already. First stop was Rhone river area and we walked to the Genève lake. Unfortunately, because of today's temperature was minus 2 degree celcius, so the Jet d'Eau was turned off. We missed one of the iconic moment in Genève. But that's okay, after that we went around the lake. The sun was warmer than in Zurich but the wind was blow harder than ever. I thought the hell was frozen now and blows the pain on my face.
Jardin Botanique located between the WTO head office and UNICEF was the next place we went on the afternoon. I felt surrounded by nature, Jardin Botanique was ready to bloom.
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We supposed to have lunch in United Nations with my cousin. She's working for permanent mission in Genève so we might had the chance to eat on the Palais des Nations and having the view on Mont Blanc. But her meeting ended late so we thought it would be hard to get lunch there if we're already late. We end up at Thai restaurant, the best so far for me.
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Before we headed to Palais des Nations, we stopped at the iconic Brokenchair. Still can't believe I was on UN Headquarter! The one I've ever imagine throughout the books. We went the security checked so fast, and made the ID for free. Thanks to my beloved cousins for the hardwork. Voila!
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I think I should've separate the Palais des Nations journey different post. Because the Palais feels like when you enter the real palace, museum, office and the world. Those feelings mixed together like I can't describe in a word.
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Anyway, I was on the plane over France now on my way to Amsterdam. The cloud looks pretty this morning.
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Back to the story of day 3. At 5 pm were back to the apartment the took a fast break the only me and my cousin continue our journey through the Old Town. Golden time was beautifully paint Genève sky, and were having great conversation about Indonesian history on our walks. Such a simple evening throughout the city.
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The temperature falls slowly as the night rise. I'm not wearing any leg warmer so I became the frozen stone all night. The worst night so far. Hope there will be no night worse in the future.
But the best things so far happened on that night. We're having the best steak on Switzerland at Café de Paris. My cousin said that the original one is from this city since 1930, so of you're having the steak on the Paris you'll now that's not the best one.
This isn't like the regular American steak. The meat wasn't that thick, the sauce isn't BBQ. And the medium raw was the best steak from here, in my opinion, the meat so tender, the juice was melting in your mouth perfectly. I can say that this is my European rendang. Didn't taste like our most delicious rendang, but this steak would have the same level of joy and excitement like rendang on my mouth.
I'm saving my money to get back there sometimes. I should.
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There's a drunk man was kicked out while we're eating. He's yelled at the waiter, and my cousin said don't look at him, he could be mad at you too. You must be alert on your belongings here,there are many foreign people who came in Genève either for work or anything else.
That's all for today, my lips already frozen today. Frozen hugs from Amsterdam!
March 2013
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