Tres belle, non?
Yeah, the whole country of Switzerland is like that (even though this picture was technically taken in France). So I'll let pictures do most of the talking.
Today, we toured the cities of Lausanne and Montreux, two gorgeous Swiss cities built into the hills surrounding Lac Leman (Lake Geneva -- which is as clear and as blue as the sky).
This is our bus driver. He dared me ( a la Francais -- the guide had to translate) to take his picture instead of another one of the Olympic museum. So I did.
The entrance to a gorgeous cathedral we visited in Lausanne -- the picture doesn't do it justice.
Me, contemplating the universe on a street in Lausanne...
The view of Lausanne from a park where Allison and I had croques monsieur for lunch (French grilled ham-and-cheese sandwiches).
The Chateau Chillon -- a castle built into a small island in Lac Leman. This building alone three times as old as the United States.
Allison and I got back to Geneva tired and slightly sunburned, and then stopped at this fabulously kitschy fondue restaurant -- fondue is a big deal in Switzerland -- where we dipped bread in delicious bubbly cheese sauce and drank a whole bottle of Pinot Noir between the two of us. We enjoyed live local folk music (well, some of it was folk music -- they actually sang "Desperado" in French, which nearly made me snort expensive wine out of my nose). And I tell you, there are few things funnier than watching a man play a tune with only cowbells (I gotta feva, and the only prescription is...MORE COWBELL) or seeing Japanese tourists attempting to play a Swiss mountain horn (if you are unsure what a Swiss mountain horn is, I dare you to click here).
I leave you now with the above statue. No, that is not a king or one of the dukes of Bern or some revolutionary from the renaissance. That, my friends, is Freddy Mercury, next to Lac Leman. It was the most popular spot on the lake.I love this country.
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