Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Montreux - Lake Geneva - Home Exchange

We're going to do this photo again, Allan is actually standing in front of the castle & you can't see the mountains that well (Home Exchange garden)

The skies cleared and the sun came out on the morning we were leaving Zurich.  The drive to Montreux was beautiful with the Alps constantly in view. As we drove into Montreux we realized how much of a beautiful place we would be staying, the mountains surround us with Lake Geneva settled in the middle. 

Our home exchange is FANTSTIC! The apartment has specular views of Lake Geneva and Chateau de Chillon.  There is a lovely garden and private play park for the little kids to play. 

We had some lunch and spent the afternoon exploring the lakefront.  With the sun shinning and the beautiful surrounding we walked about 6km past the castle and into the next village.  We stopped several times along the way to play in the parks, drink from the fountains (Leo) and skim stones in the lake.  The lake is clear, clean and calm.  We had a great time enjoying a beautiful spring day in Switzerland.


Montreux is basically on the Swiss/French boarder.  Several of the pictures of mountains taken from our apartment are of the French Alps.  The ferries in the Lake have a Swiss flag on the back and a French flag on the front.  This part of Switzerland speaks French unlike Zurich, which speaks Swiss-German.

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