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Switzerland: Part the Third – Vevey (Town)

The last stop on our trip was Vevey, which turned out to be my favourite of the three towns. We started off by getting the boat across the lake from Lausanne. It was a bit cold and wet, but still a lot of fun, with great views.

1 Boat Ride

We passed load of really massive houses built up the hillside, seen from the boat. But even the less impressive terraced houses have an amazing view of the misty mountains:

2 Misty Mountains

We found a very pretty Russian Orthodox church on our wanderings, but unfortunately, we didn’t get the chance to go in:

3 Russian Church

Down by the lake, we came across this awesome sunken ship playground, our favourite of the many play areas we saw in Switzerland:

4 Sunken Ship

We walked all the way down the canal to where it met the lake, on the “Pont de L’Europe”, which had pretty flower boxes all along its length:

5 River meets Lake

Even prettier were the rose bowers over the benches along the lake shore:

6 Pretty Flowers

There were some interesting statues to see in Vevey – women riding seahorses:

7 Seahorses

Charlie Chaplin:

8 Charlie Chaplin

And a giant fork:

9 Giant Fork

My favourite place we visited on the whole trip was the Chateau La Tour-de-Peilz, which looked suitable medi-eval from the outside, and housed the Swiss Museum of Games:

10 Museum Tower

One of the humans took me up to the top of the tower, where there was quite the view:

11 Museum Tower View

Next time, in our final instalment – inside the Museum of Games!


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