What a beautiful day it was.

What a pretty pink flower

Well, after a quick dash of furniture shopping in the morning, I had a pretty relaxing day.. did some family phone calls (it's such a pain with the time difference.. weekends are really my only time to call.. boohoo) and managed to get through to my newlywed pal, Adeline, with a really bad line. She's been ill with a kidney infection, poor love. On the mend now though.

So, I did a bit of wandering around town, got my eyelashes tinted, did some shoe shopping.. ya know: all the important stuff.

Then I came home and decided that it was too nice a day for my boy Luke to be at home.. so off we went down the hill to find us some adventure! We found some pedal boat thingies that you can hire for a measily price of Ch. 20/hr!! That's the cheapest thing I've found in all of Switzerland to date! Anyhoo, Luke and I knicked off in one of these boats and set off across the lake.. pedalling away. The sun beat upon our brow but we kept pedalling. We had a goal in sight: Montreux's most famous castle (and one of Luke's most favourite places - apparently the old fashioned toilet is really cool): Chateau de Chillion. It was a fair way off and I didn't actually think we would make it there and back in an hour, but by golly we were going to give it all we had!

Here are some snaps from the beginning of the journey, going around the castle and just a cute shot of Luke.

Whoa, how small does the castle look?! Oh! It's getting bigger..

That's one BIG castle! (View from the back)


Luke, my buddy, with France in view behind

(it must've been near the start cos there's still a faint smile..)

A view from on the lake (the water is so clean I think you could drink it)

What a jolly beautiful day! We were absolutely stuffed at the end of it but we picked up some groceries and headed up the steep ascent: all 290+ stairs! I tells ya, we'll be fit in no time!

I then thought I would have a bit of child-like fun and play Luke's computer game of Risk. Poor thing, from "just let me finish this game Luke!" to "wait, I'll conquer Europe in my next attack turn then it's your turn" to "WAIT 5 MINUTES LUKE!!" and finally, "you didn't want to play the game until I did - go away! It's MINE!". Hehe, ok, now I'm slightly addicted!

What a great day. Think we're going to go to a closer English church tomorrow which should be good. Saves me getting the train to Geneva again!

Well, peace out. Rather tired after a hard day's.. umm, sight-seeing?

Love Kel

xxx