This morning the program paid for a boat from Geneva to Yvoire, France, about an hour and a half trip each way after a couple of stops along the Swiss side of the lake. The switch from one country to the next can be anticlimactic here--there was no customs agent or border station (which I realize can be difficult to construct in the middle of so large a pond as Lac Léman), and my passport remained in my bag, unstamped or examined. It's great: the most successful experiment in open borders that I know of, flawless except for the need to change currencies. Lose the franc, Switzerland, your exchange rate is killing all of us.
