Breakfast today at the Fairmont Hotel in Montreux was in a beautiful glass room overlooking Lake Geneva.
While our room at the Fairmont was very tiny, the corridors were huge and went for miles. You could hold a ball in them.
We hopped on our bus and headed around the lake shore to the town of Vevey. This town has the headquarters of the Nestle Group who funded a culinary museum. You all know forks in the road, well here is a fork in the lake. This sculpture was made as part of the celebrations of the 10th anniversary of the culinary museum back in the 1990s.
Being Switzerland, even the lake fishermen are catered for.
Here is a shot Jeanette took of me and my little mate. Charlie Chaplin lived the last 25 years of his life in Vevey and there is a museum of his work here as well as this statute.
Being the last day of our bus tour we stopped just out of Zurich for a group photo.
We had a walk around the old part of Zurich where you can find traces of the Roman settlement here.
This is a shot of an interesting device on the wall of Fraumunster Church. Apparently back in the day, if you were a lady with a tendency to be a bit on the fast side you would wear very wide skirts. To counter this tendency, the church authorities built this Hussey testing arch. You had to be able to pass through it before you were allowed to go to church. Jeanette, being a good girl, passed with a wide margin.
Zurich is a beautiful and elegant city and you can see the wealth here all around you.
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