Lausanne
Travel Blogs from Lausanne, Switzerland
Lovely Lausanne
Drive up the lake to see Dave's Aunt Rosie for a few days. She also has a great flat overlooking the old part of the city. Enjoy the nice weather exploring the town, nearby Gruyere and other towns and food and wine. Also visit their ...
Further Round the Lake
... the side of the road high above Montreux overlooking Lake Geneva and the surrounding countryside with the distant sound of cowbells. Switzerland at it's best! We then drove further up the mountain to a panoramic restaurant and lookout and found that there ...
French Switzerland, Deep Purple style
... at the top. We were on top of Switzerland. Snow was everywhere so Lucy was excited. We were nearing our complete circumnavigation of Switzerland, when we tried to cross a mountain and the roads were blocked, so we chucked a u-turn and drove back. However, ...
TOBLERONE, BRATWURST, AND FLUBBLE
A man named Revocat drove me to Lausanne, Switzerland. At first, I thought he had the coolest name. It suggested he was a silver-armor-wearing, half-man/half-cougar, boily-tempered character on my favorite childhood tv show The Thundercats. "Revocat" ...
Off to Lausanne
... there it was back to the hotel to collect our bags & head for the train station, Gare de Lyon, to catch our train to Lausanne, Switzerland. If you're ever catching a train there be sure to go to the right part of the station. We were waiting for the ...
The end or the beginning
and like that, she began. It could so easily have been a year or two long extravaganza but where one of lifes journeys ends, the next begins. Its been truly a trip of a lifetime, generally at a fast pace though that's as much how I live life as a ...
Another town built on hills
... to Lausanne, praying it was warmer even slight warmer than what it was in Neuchatel. It wasn’t much warmer in Lausanne and like Neuchatel almost everything was shut, expect for your necessities like McDonalds and Star Bucks! A few shops were open ...
I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list
Yes, I know, technically I haven't left Europe yet, but I thought I might fill you in on what has happened so far. First and most importantly: I got my visa! My passport was thankfully returned to me with the visa inside, looking better than ever. Now ...
Lausanne
Spent our last day in the Lurvely Lausanne. Cathedral very interesting but small when compared to others. There was a good art gallery & museum beside so we whiled away a few hours there after (lovely) lunch. Had a quick buzz around the shops & cobble ...
Lausanne
We end up in lasanne where it is raining and we walk for about half an hour to find a youth hostel, when we finally manage to find a dry spot where our moral is no longer being hit, our wallet is, a whooping 80 franks for the two of us in a youth ...
Novara - Lausanne
Back into Switzerland, stopped in Castle Chillon on Lake Geneve for lunch, onwards to Lausanne, free camp by ...
Lausanne
... foot steps since last we found internets. Most places we found were coin operated and not cheap. Well we are at a real internet cafe in Lausanne now and that is what counts, now. G and I have entered a new phase of our travels and ...
Lausanne day trip and last days in Geneva
... to the harbor and took copious amounts of pictures of the lake, the boats and the mountains. Oh, have I told you how Switzerland is NOT a mountainous country. Who knew? I still think it's a mountainous country, and its become a bit ...
Lausanne
I love Lausanne. Time just disappeared looking out on Lake Geneva. Beautiful times... Lausanne scores... 10/10 - well theres no point having a perfect rating if it doesn't go to places like this! Best things: The views, atmosphere, serenity... ...
and I thought Hockey was a big deal...
... bit, as per the advice of my lovely friend! I was having supper at the hostel, when I meet Daniel from Miami, who came to Switzerland just to be here during the football games. He invited me to join him, and Thom from Newcastle, to watch the game at ...
Gloomy and Doomy
... We then caught the metro back up into the Altstadt (Old City) and made our way towards the other great sight of Lausanne, its Cathedral. Rachel was extremely unhappy at this point of our journey, because Lausanne has the steepest hills we have ever seen ...
Diario di un surfista d'acqua dolce - Atto I
Oggi é un giorno speciale: non solo l'ultimo di lavoro per qualche tempo ma anche l'inizio di una nuova fase, una pagina bianca della mia vita che verrà scritta con un carattere e un colore diverso da quello utilizzato finora, qualcosa di ...
The most difficult step of any trip is the first.
I was not planning on writing an entry until I was actually on the African continent, but I realized I probably would not have time to fill you in on my arrival date, as the first couple of days are likely to be busy. So let me fill you in on what has ...
Lausanne and The Olympics Museum
... in Paris until Sunday. Myself and three of my friends have rented a room in a hostel and will not be coming back to Switzerland until Sunday night! So, obviously, things are going well and I am super happy. And today I went on a pretty cool ...
Luasanne on the banks of Lake Leman
Hello again! This time from Lausanne. Lausanne is situated in on the banks of Lake Leman. It is situated about 70 km from Geneva. As you can imagine the drive was spectacular. Lake Leman is so blue and breathtaking! Hotel ...
City by the Lake
... are a lot of steep hills here. We had been craving kebabs for a while so decided to do that. The kebab shops in Switzerland are all immaculately clean, so we had a traditional kebab wrap and a kebab sandwich which was awesome. After dinner we found a ...
Lausanne
We got to Lausanne. My cousin was there but we just missed him by a few hours. We got on a bus to Ouchy (the port). The view there was pretty but not as pretty as in Interlaken. Though it was cool being on Lake Geneva, which was huge! But this was not my ...
Lovely Lausanne with Laura
... bit of common French along the way - she is a very good teacher, makes you remember it very easily. Lausanne is the largest town I have been in in Switzerland - even though it is not the capital or considered a main town. It is very homely - there was ...
Lausanne
We didn't have much time in Switzerland, and it was strife ridden, so we were glad to leave the next morning, and didn't have time for an entry then. We travelled for nine hours to get there, due to messed up tickets, was interesting but long. We ended up ...
The sea in Switzerland......
... also be a city which we would come back to one day to spend more time in. It was also great to experience some French since Lausanne is situated very close to France. We had our first 'not so great' trip on the trains in Europe. From Lausanne to Milan, ...
Lausanne, Switzerland
... in Lyon with Ben and Laura, we are sad to admit, have come to an end. Our new chapter, with Laura "aka Daria" in Switzerland, however, are yet to properly begin! Friends Daria and Ryan are settled in a lovely patch, close to Lake Geneva. Their student ...
Prêts, partez, feu!
Ca y est, le jour J est arrivé! Je quitte la Suisse avec mes 15kg (objectif atteint!) sur le dos, mon sac et mes poches pleins de vos cadeaux astucieux pour survivre à toute (je dis bien TOUTE) situation (j'ai quand même manuel de survie, ...
Ouchy was I wanted to see and it was worth it!
... there for some hours, relaxing and enjoying the breeze. And then returned back to train station via m2 metro. Lausanne became the first city in Switzerland to have a rubber-tyred metro system, with the m2 Line which opened in October 2008. ...
Sitting in an Arcade?
Bon Jour! - Not bonjourno! Bon Jour! Because I am now in Lisuanne Switzerland, which is a French speaking city of Switzerland. Some parts of Switzerland speak German. So far, in the past few hours that I have been here I am not a fan of Switzerland. I ...

