Apologies for the lack of blogging, but I have been away on a short break to Geneva. As my husband works at CERN, this gave me a chance to visit the LHCb experiment on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The bottom two photos show me in the experiment control room and assembly hall. The whole thing is an amazing feat of engineering - a 27km particle accelerator constructed in a tunnel bored through the rock 100m beneath the ground.
Of course, Geneva is also known for another landmark - the Jet d'Eau (first photo), which pumps water to a height of 140m. Another amazing feat of engineering when it was built in 1886.
Equally impressive is the Geneva tram network - the construction of the line shown below involved boring a tunnel underneath the village of Meyrin to accommodate the road traffic!
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