Well, let's get back to our cycling tour around the Geneva Lake, back in May. We have been planning this for a very long time and got finally the perfect timing: a long weekend (due to a bank holiday on Monday) and weather predictions for wonderful, sunny spring days.
Day 1: Montreux to Lausanne
We started the tour in Montreux on Saturday morning, by visiting the Château de Chillon, the most famous castle in Swizterland, which enjoys a spectacular location on the eastern edge of Lake Geneva.
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| From Geneva lake (Cycling Tour) |
The first 10-15 kms back to Montreux and then further on to Vevey were an easy ride, with spectacular views and a few stops at well-known tourist spots, like the statue of Freddie Mercury in Montreux or the one of Charlie Chaplin in Vevey, continuing afterwards our way along the lake towards Lausanne, our end destination for Day 1.
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| From Geneva lake (Cycling Tour) |
However, the lake-side road ended at one point, so we had to cycle through the vineyards up on the hill, which was a little more demanding (there were however still no complaints at this point of the tour). Arriving to Lausanne after about 40 kms of cycling in Day 1, we still had some energy to do a little sightseeing and have a nice dinner together with our ex-classmate, Reka and her boyfriend.
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| From Geneva lake (Cycling Tour) |
Day 2: Lausanne to Nyon
Our plan for the second day was to continue our tour from Lausanne to Nyon (another 40 kms...) By riding around the town and especially along the lake-side in- and near Lausanne, we felt like this was one of the places where we could actually imagine living (if our French would be a little better than... nothing). It was probably the very large green areas full of people enjoying their Sunday morning piknik, children playing around, the atmosphere on the sea promenade and the nice houses on the backstreets which made us think that this was the place to live in (ahm, anyway, we still have some years ahead to improve our French... and save some money for a house).
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| From Geneva lake (Cycling Tour) |
Later in the afternoon we faced some real challenges with our efforts to find a restaurant or supermarket open to have something to eat (there was only one Mc Donalds, which we of course decided to skip only to realize later that everything was closed since lunch time was 'officially' over). Luckily cheese plates are sometimes considered as dessert, so after a short 'dessert break' we continued our ride... uphill ;-((... through the vineyards:
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| From Geneva lake (Cycling Tour) |
After an exhausting afternoon ride, we finally reached Nyon, our end destination for Day 2 and had our wonderful, well-deserved dinner at the lake-side, after which we took a train to Geneva (first of all, because there were no rooms available in Nyon, and secondly, because at least one of us refused to ride any further).
Day 3: Geneva to Nyon
To cover the last remaining part of our Montreux-Geneva tour, on last day we decided to cover the remaining 40 kms from Geneva to Nyon. But first of all, we did some sightseeing in Geneva, cycling along the lake-side to the Jet d'Eau (one of the city's most famous landmarks),
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| From Geneva lake (Cycling Tour) |
To view all our photos from this tour, you may check out our Album here.
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