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Solar Tour 2008 – Day 6: In the afternoon we wanted to visit CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research close to Geneva. Not only is it the birthplace of the world-wide-web as we know it but also home of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator complex. It was surprisingly difficult to find CERN on the border between Switzerland and France. Unfortunately the visitor center was closed. We don’t know exactly why. Maybe because of the LHC experiments or there might have been a national holiday (all stores seemed to be closed as well).
There was a campground nearby but we didn’t like it and didn’t want to loose an extra day waiting for CERN to open again, so we left Switzerland and tried to find a campground or motorhome parking in France. The first campground we tried was already closed when we arrived at 17:15 and we didn’t see anyone to let us in. That’s one reason why many motorhome people don’t really like campgrounds. We often arrive later in the evening and just need a place for the night. Some kilometers further on in Saint-Disdille close to Thonon-les-Bains we were more lucky and got a good place. It was a long day, which didn’t quiet go as expected, so being able to rest, have a nice dinner and take a shower felt good.