Geneva – Route de Drize, Graffiti

For our next excursion I decided walk along the Route de Drize. It didn’t look all that interesting, but it was somewhere to go. However, as I was walking along I noticed a dirt track going down to the right and decided to follow it to see where it went. After descending for a while I found that I was under a bridge, which carried the road I had be walking along over the River Drize.

And under the bridge were some amazing graffiti. A while back I commented on some graffiti I’d seen along Croton Gorge (See: Croton Gorge – Why do they do this?. At the time I wrote: “Maybe they do it to express themselves artistically and I must say that I’ve seen some very impressive graffiti, obviously done by people with artistic talent. But this…it has no artistic merit. If the people doing envision themselves as future artists then they have a long way to go.” This is the kind of “impressive” graffiti to which I was referring. It’s pretty spectacular!

Geneva – Troinex, Large Coniferous Trees

As I was walking back along the Route de Troinex I noticed these very impressive, coniferous trees. I don’t know much about trees and so am unable to tell whether they were pines, firs or some other, similar kind of tree. I do know that they were huge. We have some tall pine trees in the garden of our house in Briarcliff Manor, but they are not in the same class as these monsters, which had a significantly larger diameter.

Geneva – Troinex, floral display

Swiss villages are usually awash with flowers, and Troinex was no exception. Here we see flowers tastefully arranged around some old, rusting machinery all contained in a wooden box bearing the Troinex coat of arms:

The coat of arms of Troinex represents a castle banded with three rows of unequal stones. These are those of the Chateauneuf, and can still be found carved on an old house in Troinex.

The Chateauneuf were part of the Geneva bourgeoisie and owned the Troinex stronghold in the 16th century (translated from the original French on the town website).

Geneva – Troinex, Cemetery

By this point I was tired and my legs/feet hurt. I was starting to develop blisters and I still had a long walk ahead for me. I should just call it a day and turn back. But then I saw a sign that read “Cimetière” and with my fascination with cemeteries I just couldn’t pass it up. As it turned out it wasn’t too far away.

As I approached I noticed a sign strongly stating that dogs (actually all animals) were forbidden. After living/working in Switzerland I know that the Swiss are very big on rules so since I had the dog with me I didn’t go inside. From the outside it didn’t look all that interesting: small and somewhat modern looking. I suppose it could have gone back further than I could see, but I couldn’t go in to find out.

I kept meaning to return without the dog, but somehow never got around to it.