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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 ...
International Travels: Switzerland! 10/6-7
... Jazz festival, and there was evidence of the city's jazz roots all over the place
The second day, I had an entire morning to kill before my train home. I had planned a relaxing morning of sitting on the lake shore in the sunshine. Unfortunately, it was raining, so there was nowhere dry to sit, and the cafes are too expensive to ...
Château de Chillon
... got a great view over the castle and lake from above.
After we had explored the castle we decided that we would skip Lausanne for the time being. I had caught my usual September cold (despite not having 24 small children around me!) and didn't fancy hiking up and down through the town. We decided instead to head back to France and spend a day or two relaxing in camp and hopefully getting rid of my cold before meeting up with Dad & Tan. We drove ...
Gruyère production
... that had different sized holes in it that were used for measuring grain in the old days. We also stopped off at a small shop that had a fabulous exhibit of an Italian artist, Massimo Cruciani. He does painting on glass and the shop had done a great job with the displays; the light shining on the paintings was beautiful. We particularly liked the pictures of poppies since they stood out so well. We walked around the outside of the castle, but our ...