Back to my more usual blogging platform today because there is a fair amount to relate. If you have been following my FaceBook so far, you will now we are in Lausanne after what turned out to be a relatively incident-free journey on Wednesday and Thursday (despite threatened industrial action in France. Today (Friday) has been our first full day and we had no firm plans other than a vague “mooch about the locality” idea.
We had our breakfast at the Café/Tearoom a few minutes walk away down by the lake. Perfectly adequate but we think we spoiled ourselves with the Paris breakfast on Thursday morning – same ingredients (juice, coffee & croissant) but so much better.
So once ready we set off on the local Metro up to the stop nearest the Cathedral and headed there. Wow! I don’t get too wound up about cathedrals generally but this was a real cracker.
The last picture showed how we got in BUT the old door is a magnificent preservation.
You may note the rose window – more on that later but this church has the most impressive stained glass we have seen in many years.
More glass!
I can spot a good rose window from miles and love the see both interior & exterior – this is a particularly fine example
Naturally my running theme of organs continues – Lausanne has the usual (for big places) two a minor (!) and a Mighty Organ
After almost an hour at the Cathedral we went a little further up the hill to the Chateau St-Maire – only viewed form the outside but with views over the city.
After all that we started on the walk back down to the city centre down Market Street – partially preserved and partially ‘made safer’ with lots of ‘artisan’ shops and cafés and a pleasant atmosphere,
Following all that ‘old town’ excitement we wandered thought the more modern city centre. Much if it is being noisily rebuilt with a major engineering project making progress anywhere more difficult than it needs to be. We decided to continue on the 15 minute or so walk back down to the port of Ouchy where we are staying.
Tired but happy we ‘“accidentally” fell into an Italian restaurant, had a wonderful meal and realised that Lausanne has ‘got its teeth into us’ – we love it.
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