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Article: Beautiful and tranquil, Geneva will put a smile on your face
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- January 11, 2009
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GENEVA -- "Come on, cats," I commanded my two rescued-from-a-
barn felines. "Say, 'Le meow! Le meow!' You can do it!"
Telling a cat what to do is like, well, herding cats, and
teaching them quasi-French is even more tricky, so naturally they
turned up their snobbish little noses and pranced away, unheeding of
my directive. Days before, I had just returned to Georgia from a
trip to Geneva and just couldn't get it out of my mind. Never have I
been so inspired by a place to want to pack the bags, cats and hubby
and move to another continent.
I was more than ready to exchange "y'all" and "bless your heart"
for "merci" and "bonjour" and move to this tantalizing city on the
Swiss-French border ...