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Today I also visited the Chateau de Chillon, in Montreux, https://www.chillon.ch/en/. Lord Byron was here also as a tourist in the 19th century, and he left graffiti: his name carved on a stone wall. I can imagine it must have taken some time to get it done. 

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Hi, today I have visited Lavaux Vineyard Terraces https://www.lausanne-tourisme.ch/en/Z5501/lavaux, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The views are stunning, but I am not sure I understand why it is a world heritage site. I think part of the story must be the wines that they make with the grapes that are grown there, but being ten I could not appreciate that :). 

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Also from CERN, this is the first internet server EVER, from 1989. On the right you can see the paper that Tim Berners-Lee wrote proposing the internet architecture, with the objective of managing the large amount of information that CERN needed to handle. On the top of the paper, a hand-written note in blue ink says “vague but interesting”.

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Hi, I am in Geneva, I visited CERN. This is the first accelerator they built in 1957, it is called the synchrocyclotron. It was in service until 1990, and after that it could not be visited because of lingering radiation. They opened it to the public some 5 years ago. I visited it as part of the tour.

These tours are free and are great, because you can ask questions. Our guide was a real phsicist working at Cern. I asked how they were able to maintain the accelerator when it was in use, considering how dangerous it must have been to have people working there with so much radiation. He explained that after after the machine was turned off, they had to wait for a while before getting in, they had special protective equipement. Anybody working there had to were a detector that measures how much radiation they were exposed to. When they had to work with a high level, e.g. due to maintenance being required quickly, they worked in short shifts, for example one hour, so that the radiation they were exposed to never got above the legal limit. It is now perfectly safe to visit.

This is not a World Heritage Site, but I think it should become one.

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Hi, I am ten (this blog is actually my parents’), I love history, travel and science. I want to use this blog to share pictures and comments on UNESCO World Heritage Sites I visit, and maybe also places that I think may become World Heritage Sites in the future (my World Heritage Site candidates!). 
My first post is about a visit to Ironbridge Gorge and Blists Hill Victorian Town. At the time I visited there was a large group of Chinese visitors, and they put together a show with music and umbrellas. They were dressed with very smart traditional dresses. 
Oh, and I also had spectacular fish and chips. It is interesting how different from today’s shops the fish and chips shop was, with naked walls and very few things on the shelves, I think austere would be the right word to describe it, but then I hear that this is where abundance and consumerism started, so I can’t imagine what shops were like in the middle ages, if there were any.