CERN

As Morzine is not far from Geneva, it would have been a pity to miss the opportunity to pay a visit to CERN, and its world-famous Large Hadron Collider.   So we did.
The CERN site, which is near Geneva Airport, is a rather sad looking collection of '60s style buildings and some very dodgy landscaping.  Clearly all the $billions that have been spent on the institution are well hidden underground.  Nevertheless, the two hour tour was interesting and well put together, and did a good job of explaining how CERN came into being and some of its historical achievements, as well as a look at some of the latest experiments associated with the LHC, such as ATLAS (see pic below).

So: been there, done that, and I did get the tee shirt!