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Published: October 19th 2005
12/10/05 - In Switzerland we said farewell to our petite cousins (distant cousins) - Jean, Beatrice, Jean-Frédéric and my Uncle Robert at a restaurant on the banks of Lake Bienne. We discovered that Swiss cuisine is not at all comparable to the French food we have grown used to.
Jean- Frédéric was on his way to Lausanne to start his studies at a business college, so we all tagged along on the drive from Alsace to Lausanne. We followed Jean’s green bus through Alsace to Switzerland, via the many tunnels that finally get you to Lausanne.
The Swiss don’t just put holes in their cheese; they also put them through their mountains. The many tunnels through the Alps certainly make road travel a lot faster than if you had to drive over the Alps.
We left Uncle Robert in their hands and thanked them for their hospitality. Lorenza will not see them again before returning home; we will meet up with Uncle Robert again once we are in Australia. I will see all but Jean- Frédéric later in my travels.
It is very difficult to express how lovely our petite cousins are and how well they look
after us, they are the kindest, friendliest folks we have met in our lives - thanks!
From Lausanne we took the scenic route along Lake Geneva, stopping for some photos at its shores in Nyon. It is autumn, but how could we complain about the weather, it’s about 22 degrees and the sky is wonderful and sunny! There is a bit of haze about, making it hard to take good photos, but at least it is not foggy or freezing cold.
We can tell our destination, Chamonix (on the French side of the Alps) is getting closer, because the mountains are growing closer and closer to the sky. They are so much more imposing than the mountain we live on in Australia. Try comparing 3800 metres tall to our 465 metres!
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Lake Geneva @ Nyon
