May 31, 2003 – Saturday
Montreaux
We were supposed to wake up early to go to Luzern, but kept hitting the snooze button. We finally got it together around 11 am and decided to go to Montreaux and the Chateau de Chillon. We arrived at around ten to 1, but instead of taking the second train to the Chateau, we decided to do the hour walk to Veytaux-Chillon.
It was so beautiful outside, and the city looked amazing. People were swimming, boating, and rollerblading. This last part made Kelsey and I really long for our skates. When we got to the Chateau, it was nice and cool in the Crypte, which was a great change after our walk.
We looked around forever to find an ATM, and when we finally located one, I realized I’d forgotten my wallet back at home, so Kelsey pulled some money out to lend me. We were pretty tired at this point, so we decided to head back to Lausanne. At the Lausanne station, we found out our shuttle to the Romanel train (where Laurie’s apartment was), was shut down because of the G8 Manifestations.
(In case you didn’t know, the G8 is a meeting of the 8 most powerful countries in the world, where they discuss how they plan to continue trying to run the world. Seems a little too much like a Pinky and the Brain episode in my opinion.) Anyway, I knew that they had planned to shut down a lot of boat and train service to Geneve because of the protestations, but I’m surprised they would shut down such a dinky little shuttle service.
So we were forced to walk pretty high uphill to the Romanel train, but we got home. We walked around a bit looking for a market, but they were all far away, and closed down. And it wasn’t even 7pm.
My dad called and told me it was a good thing we did not go to Luzern after all. Turns out, the weather over there was horrific.
It was so beautiful outside, and the city looked amazing. People were swimming, boating, and rollerblading. This last part made Kelsey and I really long for our skates. When we got to the Chateau, it was nice and cool in the Crypte, which was a great change after our walk.
We looked around forever to find an ATM, and when we finally located one, I realized I’d forgotten my wallet back at home, so Kelsey pulled some money out to lend me. We were pretty tired at this point, so we decided to head back to Lausanne. At the Lausanne station, we found out our shuttle to the Romanel train (where Laurie’s apartment was), was shut down because of the G8 Manifestations.
(In case you didn’t know, the G8 is a meeting of the 8 most powerful countries in the world, where they discuss how they plan to continue trying to run the world. Seems a little too much like a Pinky and the Brain episode in my opinion.) Anyway, I knew that they had planned to shut down a lot of boat and train service to Geneve because of the protestations, but I’m surprised they would shut down such a dinky little shuttle service.
So we were forced to walk pretty high uphill to the Romanel train, but we got home. We walked around a bit looking for a market, but they were all far away, and closed down. And it wasn’t even 7pm.
My dad called and told me it was a good thing we did not go to Luzern after all. Turns out, the weather over there was horrific.
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