{"id":1137,"date":"2019-03-27T09:07:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T22:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2019-03-27T09:07:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T22:07:16","slug":"16-22-march-2019-farewell-to-geneva-travelling-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/2019\/03\/27\/16-22-march-2019-farewell-to-geneva-travelling-setup\/","title":{"rendered":"16 \u2013 22 March 2019; Farewell to Geneva, travelling setup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our last full day in Geneva was spent walking the old city (again) and visiting the Maison Tavel (Tavel House), the oldest house in Geneva. Along the way was passed through the park adjacent to the University of Geneva containing many distractions for wayward students.<\/p>\n

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The Queen making her move<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Attractive view – Geneva<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Maison Tavel was built in the 12th century by the Maison family. In 1334, the house was reconstructed following a devastating fire. In 1963, the house was purchased by the city of Geneva and converted into a museum.<\/p>\n

A detailed 3D model takes up the greater part of the Maison Tavel attic. Architect Auguste Magnin spent 18 years creating this imposing relief map of Geneva before the destruction of its fortifications in 1850 and subsequent transformation into the modern city we see today. The model is constructed entirely of metal. The houses and fortifications are in zinc, and the roofs in copper. Composed of 86 sections, it covers a surface area of 32 m\u00b2. The “Magnin Relief Map” was presented for the first time at the 1896 National Exhibition in Geneva.<\/p>\n

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Lilliputian view – Geneva 1850<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

St. Peter’s Cathedral was build between 1160 and 1252. Alas, the interior of the Cathedral was demolished in 1535, when Geneva’s residents accepted the Reformation and destroyed all the altars, statues and most of the paintings in a rage inspired by John Calvin (a resident of Geneva at the time). The Cathedral superstructure and spire escaped undamaged though.<\/p>\n

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Spire of St. Peter’s Cathedral – Geneva<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We were blessed with the very best of weather during our visit to Geneva and despite it being our longest stop (of seven nights), there remained much to do as we departed for our next location in Switzerland.<\/p>\n

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Lunch on our balcony – Geneva<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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More attractive views – Geneva<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We depart Geneva for Bern, Switzerland’s capital, expecting more good weather and places to explore.<\/p>\n

Travelling network setup<\/h6>\n

I thought it may be interesting for our dear readers to view the travelling network setup I have been using on this trip.<\/p>\n

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Traveltime – travelling setup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The four way power strip provides power to items 4, 5, 6 and 7.<\/p>\n

1. Travel wireless router with switch programmed VPN tunnel
\n2. 1TB wireless hard disk with SD card reader
\n3. Water-resistant bluetooth speaker
\n4. Canon camera battery charger
\n5. Google Chromecast USB power supply
\n6. Four port USB power supply (4 x 1A)
\n7. Four port USB power supply (2 x 2.4A [iPads] & 2 x 1A [iPhones])
\n8. Micro-USB leads for charging other portable bluetooth devices<\/p>\n

Arriving at new accommodation, these items are deployed in a suitable location near the existing network router and connected using a network cable (preferably) or wireless (otherwise).<\/p>\n

Our portable devices (2 x iPhones, 2 x iPads, 1 x Dell laptop, 1 x Google Chromecast, 1 x 1TB wireless hard disk and 1 x Canon camera) are connected to a private wireless network provided by item 1 completely independent and isolated from any external networks.<\/p>\n

I have configured item 1 to connect to our home in East Maitland via an encrypted virtual private network (VPN) tunnel routing all traffic such that it appears we are in Australia. This allows us to access internet content that may be otherwise blocked from Australia. This is the case for all ABC iView content and allows us to watch the ABC news, 7:30 Report or Four Corners, for example. This function is controlled via a switch on the side of item 1 and is turned on as required.<\/p>\n

The Google Chromecast is plugged into the TV and allows us to stream content to the TV rather than view it on the iPhone, iPad or the Dell laptop. This works for all iView, Netflix, YouTube and other supported services.<\/p>\n

The water-resistant bluetooth speaker (item 3) allows me to listen to ABC AM, PM and a number of favourite ABC and BBC podcasts while I’m in the bathroom (and anywhere else within our accommodation for that matter). It has great bass response and also makes my favourite tunes sound great even when I’m not in the shower. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

It only takes a few minutes to setup this system on arrival and has proven to provide a secure and reliable internet connection for all our devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our last full day in Geneva was spent walking the old city (again) and visiting the Maison Tavel (Tavel House), the oldest house in Geneva. Along the way was passed through the park adjacent to the University of Geneva containing many distractions for wayward students. Maison Tavel was built in the 12th century by the … Continue reading “16 \u2013 22 March 2019; Farewell to Geneva, travelling setup”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[23,22],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chris-and-greg-europe-2019","tag-geneva","tag-switzerland"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}