Montreaux - Lake Geneva

After leaving Interlaken we headed to Montreaux. It's a nice town on the shores of Lake Geneva. One of Mel's mum's favourite places in Europe. It certainly is pretty. We particularly enjoyed going to the Chateau de Chillion. From the outside it doesn't look that spectacular but once you enter the walls it's great. It's probably the most well preserved and oldest buildings I've seen in Europe. It contains great 15th century banquet rooms, bedrooms, chapels and the like. A must-see if you are ever in the area.

Originally, we'd planned to go to Karlsruhe on this day as it was a Friday and this meant we could spend the entire weekend with Yoshimi and Fridi. The plan was then to come down to Switzerland again later. With Swiss trains being so expensive we rearranged plans. Luckily, Sally, who I used to work with at Amerada, now lives near Lausanne with her husband Chris. I'd previously discussed the possibilities of catching up with them but it didn't sound like it would work with her brother potentially being there that week and Sally in the middle of studying. In fact, it worked out very well.

We made our way to Renens (one station on from Lausanne) station and Sally came and picked us up. We had dinner with them before Sally had to drop Chris at the station (he was popping back to England for a short time). We had a very pleasant evening drinking some very nice wine. The next morning Sally helped us get train tickets (actually she did all the work!) to Karlsruhe. Thanks Sally!