Starting : 13.15 PM appointment in the courtyard of the school « Les Cropettes » just upon the park « Les Cropettes »
Inscriptions mandatory at: «Samedis du Vélo». The tour is free and takes place whatever the weather is.
This cycling trip round the center of the city will present you some of the famous writers in english related to Geneva.
We will first go to the ICRC Museum which will be presented in the link with Ernest Hemingway who was an ambulance driver during the First World War, an experience which inspired him the writing of: «A Farewell to Arms».
In a short cycling journey we will reach the Villa Moynier to shiver with Mary Shelley and her «Frankenstein».
This incredible work is the result of a crazy gamble with Lord Byron and Percy Shelley in Geneva in 1816.
We will then reach the old town to discover where George Eliot lived and how she evokes her stay in Geneva in: «The Lifted Veil».
We will end our cycling trip with the courthouse where a trial related to arms trafficking will be the link to the book «Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb party» of the novelist Graham Greene.
Let’s cycle and discover literature together!