Neutral environment

Neutrality is the first association. He always knew that Switzerland was a neutral country, he always knew what this means. He does not fight with anyone, does not enter the blocks, shifts any conflicts, but he doesn’t even shun, but somehow there is no reason to discuss whether the neutral country of some conflicts will aspire. Neutrality - it is neutral.

Now that they ask me how I live in Switzerland, I, too, are the first word, without hesitation, I reply that Switzerland is a neutral country, and hastily, until the interlocutor thought that I was talking to him with stamps from the school textbook of geography, I explain that this is not from the textbook of geography, but rather from the textbook of chemistry - a neutral environment in which nothing is nothing. rusts and does not oxidize, nothing happens at all; Surely I forgot the school chemistry course and confused everything, but this is how I imagine a neutral environment for a person - a space in which there is nothing that I would annoy me.

The hairdresser will answer you that he doesn’t remember exactly, but in some language Muzh means “senior”.

By the way, I do not know, about the country or about the city; I traveled a little throughout the country, I did not see the neutrality theory, but I admit that somewhere (in Zurich? It is unlikely, of course, but I have not yet been in Zurich, so we will not discount it) my theory is refuted. But Geneva is really the most neutral city I just saw.

This is not to say that there was nothing in Geneva that should be in the right European city; Just in Geneva there is everything. There is an old city with a large cathedral in the middle. There are trading streets with understanding how (everywhere it is the same) a set of stores on each. There are living statues, street Kebab street traders and more advanced and fashionable Mitball merchants, there are bike paths and perfect public transport, there is a flea market with old records, sewing machines and chests of drawers. There is a cafe in which you are already asking for your affairs, a hairdresser, in which an old, gray-haired dog, nicknamed Muzh and a hairdresser, is a hairdresser, a hairdresser to your question, why, in fact, a husband will definitely answer you, but in some language Muzh means “senior”. There are benches with tobacco and newspapers, working around the clock, and sooner or later you remember, in which you can be closed at night, when the supermarkets are closed, and in what bread.

There are attractions - both indisputable vulgar open, primarily a fountain that is highly beating from the lake, and those who have read the guide for connoisseurs, that is, I show everyone a bas -relief with naked Lenin and the inscription “City of Exiles” and, when the guest is diluted and null, I modestly add: “Well, here I am.” There is a Russian church, built during the time of the last Russian Switzerland, and the monument to our (in the sense of Petrovsky) Lefort, put a little on the side of the church in our time, the name Lefort is the street, and another duty joke for guests that this local leoretovo will look like a leorestvo present, maybe three hundred.

I really say something like this about Geneva to guests or, when I am in Moscow, Muscovites, but usually we have more important topics, so some significant circumstances remain outside the story. The old city with a cathedral in the middle - it is such that in it you can make a movie about anything, at least about Victorian London, at least about the Soviet Baltic states. He does not have any special signs at all, and this is apparently the only thing that he is seriously unique. The fountain is really a landmark, and to such an extent that when it (I still did not understand what algorithm) is turned off, then at least in the first months I was completely sincerely lost in the city, not understanding where to go, the only guideline disappeared. The bas -relief with Lenin - yes, it is funny, but I read about him in Shishkin’s book, and did not find it myself. I'm not at all sure that you can find something here-everything has already been found.

I know both night stores in my area, nobody needs the third store, and first of all, I (but the first two are needed, and recently there was a referendum in which the townspeople asked if the night trade in human rights violates whether all night stores were clogging - the townspeople, thanks to them, answered correctly). I know that the flea market only works on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and even two days more than those who want to buy an old chest of drawers; The market would work again a week, no one would have come to it at all. Often breakfast in a cafe, which is simultaneously a furniture store-you can buy a chair or a table that you have breakfast at, but the table is always the same, everyone who wanted to buy something has already bought everything. Who did not buy and who goes shopping on trading streets, he is wrapped in Paransha (in the summer, when the Middle East is very hot, there are many Arab tourists in Geneva), and who is not wrapped up, that Russian and, judging by the costume, is Russian, which succeeded in life. You have known both shawarma merchants for a long time, one Turk even speaks Russian because you came from Antalya, and you already know that he will ask you how to do it. It seems that in Moscow this is considered the highest manifestation of Europeanism - or not the highest, but one of, between a tram and a bicycle path.

I'm not at all sure that you can find something here-everything has already been found.

And all these signs here, of course, are. There is nothing that could be called the best in the world, and there is nothing that could be called terrible. I really tried to remember something that would annoy me in Geneva, but it seems that there really is nothing like that. Maybe it would be annoyed by predictability, but there is no: leaving home, I don’t know where I will sit down to add this text-in a cafe, in a park or on a lake (which of the writers did not dream of writing his texts in a cafe, park or on a lake in a beautiful European city? I dreamed of more unpredictability. The neutral environment is good that you do not need to adapt to it, you simply do not notice it. It turns out that this is very important - to such an extent that you can even get bored in Geneva, although it would be more logical to miss Moscow (yes, of course, I add this text in Moscow; as you see, there really is no predictability).