Montreux the centre of the swiss riviera and also home to the most stunning chateau in the alps. A great little place to relax for a few days unfortunatly i only had one. Spent a few hours in the chateau it really is amazing with the Lake on one side and snow covered peaks on the other, stunning! after that spent a bit of time in the town thay had some Jazz bands on as warm up to the world famous Montrex Jazz festival happening at the beginning of July. it also...

I must appolgise for these phots o haven't got around to downloading any of my photos but have to use one for each entry so just use standard ones. i will get around to updateing it. Anyway Lusanne just a bit further up Lake Geneva and also the olympic capital it had a stunning cathedral and also the Olympic Musum i could have spent days in but after a few hours it also had the best hostel so far unfortunatrly in was full of 15 year old german school children...

I have now entered a new country. got the overnight train from Paris to Port Bou after about a two hour wait got the train from Port Bou into Barcelona. interesting trip shared a cabin with 5 middle aged women and lets just say tht my French was better than their english. finally arrived in Barcelona without a hitch. the wether is just amazing after the Paris wether i couldn't belive it spent the day just wondering around acclimatising and topping up the tan,...

Well Well Well, here we go again and so far no real problems to report. i managed to go wake up on time catch the train (thanks again Deniz for letting me stay) whether has been absolutly shocking for the last 3 days. but still got to see most of the thinks i wanted. I must admit Paris was not what i expected, as i always try to to go into new places without any preconceived ideas i'm not really sure what i expected paris to be like, however what i did or did ...