The big fork introduced a museum dedicated to food.
Many famous people have visited Vevey over the years
Our AirB&B studio promised a touch of the exotic.
Rosemary's idea of the exotic!
Wednesday morning - the skies cleared and revealed alpine peaks.
The sun rises over Montreux
Montreux, home of the famous jazz festival, which concluded days before our arrival.
Freddie Mercury did Montreux before his death in 1991.
A bit rich for us - Montreux Palace Hotel
The attention to colourful streetscapes is marvellous.
Even on sunny days, the alps are shrouded.
Our mission today is to explore Chateaux de Chillon, near Montreux. This moated residence acted as a defence post for the people of Savoy for many hundreds of years.
New meets old as a super highway runs above the coast near the 1000 year old Chateaux de Chillon
The most famous resident of Chateaux de Chillon was Francois de Bonivard, a Genevois monk and politician who was imprisoned there from 1530 to 1536. His plight was made popular by Lord Byron, who wrote the poem The Prisoner Of Chillon (1816) about de Bonivard. The castle is also one of the settings in Henry James's novella Daisy Miller (1878). I was going to include Byron's poem until I discovered it was a narrative of 392 lines!
The chateaux afforded magnificent views of Lec Leman
The day concluded with Rosemary cooking lappin (rabbit) while Michael exposed his thinning pate to some bicycle maintenance.
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