Sunday - Montreux on Lake Leman and Chillon Castle. Today was an absolute cracker of a Swiss spring day and every man and woman and their dog had the same idea that I had; to walk along the shore of Lake Leman ( also referred to as Lake Geneva). The sky was huge and blue and the air clean and crisp and filled with the perfumes of the myriad of flowering trees and floral plantings along the length of the promenade. I feel very lucky that the weather was so perf...

Of course it would be just my bad timing that the ski fields at Bretaye above Villars, the town up the hill, are closing this weekend. And the telecabine (8 seated gondola) that transport skiers up to the ski fields at Bretaye just happened to stop running last weekend! Bummer!! I really wanted to ride up the mountain in one of those! So instead I had to make do with a 20 CHF (Swiss Franc) return train ride up to see the ski slopes at Bretaye. (Bretaye, acco...

After a gruelling three-legged flight haul I have arrived safely, in Switzerland! And thanks to a very friendly and helpful Pommie gentleman I accosted at the Geneva train station, I was able to negotiate my way to my friend's nearby town of Aigle. I soon realised that I had no chance of identifying the gluten-free products at the local supermarket as all the product abels are either in French or German or Italian. Something tells me I am going to have a few d...