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Last day in Switzerland and Europe
Well, today is our last full day in Switzerland. Al had a bit of bad luck trying to buy me a present. First one card wouldn't work, returned to Mack & Jude's to retrieve another, that didn't work. Went to the ATM to get out some cash, the shop was closed for lunch when he returned with the cash, then, when he made it back the ...
A day trip to Evian and Betsy gets her watch!
... such. A change in plans, we head to the train station to catch the train to Lausanne to catch the ferry to Evian. We manage to catch the 12:30 ferry to Evian.
As we get there it dawns us that we are back in France and almost everything closes down between 12 and 2pm. So the first 60mins is fairly quiet with lunch about the only thing on the menu with the far more reasonable prices!
The town is fairly small and defined by one main street and not ...
Leysin and cousin catch up after 30 years
... to Morges. On the way back we decided to get off in Montreux for a bit of aloof around. An interesting little town with a lot of shops displaying music memorabilia not the least of which features Queen and Freddie Mercury. Montreux has an annual music festival which Queen attended a number of times and ended up buying a recording studio there. There is a statue of Freddy Mercury signifying ...
Château de Chillon
... food storage, and a prison. Lord Byron wrote about the prisoner in his narrative poem "The prisoner of Chillon" and carved his name in one of the pillars.
On the next floor we went in to some amazing rooms which were used for dining and hosting large groups. The views out from the rooms over the lake were quite incredible. I could picture curling up in the corner while reading a book, but the stone seat would probably have been uncomfortable after ...
Mountain Running Fail
... mile roundtrip jaunt.
My stay in Leysin was short, mostly due to the fact that tourist towns outside of tourist season are awfully creepy... especially when you have a 20 person hostel completely to yourself and an owner that is far too excited to have someone staying there. The two night original plan quickly turned into an overnight stop and go.
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