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J Adore My Home In Switzerland!
I love my new home. Iam living in Lausanne on Lake Geveva. A beautiful city- full of cobbled stoned steep streets, stretching down to the lapping water edges of the most beautiful lake l have ever visited- Lake Geneva! I am living 10 minutes bus ride out of the city centre (or 40 minutes downhill- which l walked up today) which l frequent on my …
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The gentle art of skiing in sunshine
Emily and her husband Andrew visited during a worldwind tour of the world. It was great to catch up and hang out with the 2 after quite a few years.
Then the first day of sunshine after over a week of snowing, meant several ski trips to catch up with different mates and enjoy the huge amount of snow recently dropped and some great sunshine!
As you can see - Disco had a lot of ...
Disco goes to Montreux
What a fabulous day of snow today. In the morning I took a train to Monthey for scoping out some work opportunities. I think the business opportunity is really quite promising!
In the afternoon Sara, Elliot and I went to the Xmas market in Montreux. It was a gorgeous setting with the snow over the lake, a light snow fall and no crowds!
Disco came for the ride and we had a chilled out cruise around having hot chocolates and gluhwein / vin chaud (mulled ...
Skiing the Alps!
... there. We had sunny skies the entire trip and once again, everything was beautiful.
Had rachlettes for the first time - this is a type of cheese that they melt and serve with a couple small potatoes, onions, and pickles. I find it to be better than fondue and made sure to eat it a couple times. Another first time experience was carmel vodka. A local bar, named The Pipe makes their own vodka there and it is good!
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Roasting Chestnuts on a Open Fire, Lake Geneva
... and I was berated for breaking all the rules by dipping everything in the cheese including fries and even a slice of horse. I figure cheese goes good with anything?
Matthieu and I were hoping to go climbing in the mountains of the Swiss Alps, but the weather was not cooperative, cold and rainy and would have been abysmal up at higher elevations. Instead ...


