St Peter's Cathedral and a preview of Escalade

Now, why is this person dressed in medieval clothes?

It's Escalade! See here for more details

"Nobody's looking... I'll just quickly throw this out of the window..."

Maidens anyone? Naaaaah... They are going around selling Lapel Pins.

Where shall we storm?

It's certainly a very festive atmosphere here that features 2 days of fun (Saturday & Sunday).

Now, what are these? Along with the Festivities of the Escalade, St Peter's Cathedral takes advantage of it's rich history since creation.

So below, is a booth explaning the tools and stones used to build it.

And when you have a huge building, how do you know which stone goes where?
Easy: You mark it!

So how big is it? It's huge and it dwarfs everything else around. Not too mention it's tall tower and spire.

We look very small don't we, Little One?

Does this look like a door out of Harry Potter??? :)

15th Century Choir Stalls... But isn't this cute?

Pipe Organ at the back of the cathedral.

Any clues like in National Treasure?

Long nave... But huge, no?

Look at them massive doors.

Mummy, can I sit here?

In the 15th Century Choir Stalls, in the seats, you have these ... carved figures. It's so small this horizontal seat and these cute carved figures on each and every seat. And they are all different, seat to seat.

Whoooo... somebody's buried here. I'll leave it to you to Google this person. Hint: His name may seem very similiar to a group of riders in LOTR trilogy.

Now, what is this so colourful up in the ceiling?

Read this:

It's a really beautiful chapel with lovely and colourful stain glasses.

Mummy, Daddy: I think I can open these doors. Let me try!

Reminds us of those columns in Athens, but nowhere as large, but still huge nonetheless.

Under St Peters, is an archaelogical site.

Really reminds me of National Treasure.

Die you Savoy's!!!

The End.

Do you Fondue?

One of the things that you have to eat here while in Switzerland for the winter is Fondue, which contains loads of Cheese in a hot soupy dish which is kept hot the whole time. Winter right? You need to be hot and warm. So...

And best to wash down with Wine therafter.

I'm supposed to have taken photos of the Fondue, but due to absentmindedness, I have forgotten it all!

The heater in the middle of the room.

Thanks Jan for organising this!

And one of the interesting things about these Fondue places, if that some of the just sprout up! But as I understand it, this is one of the better ones. So, there we were at eating Fondue in this tent, near the UN offices (Grand Saconnex).

Anybody interested in a game of Ice Hockey or some Ice Skating?

The End.

Nyon

Following his visit to the train station, it would be inevitable that a train ride would be done soon after!

So here we are, taking a train ride to ...

So this is what the inside of these Swiss Precision On-Time trains are... Quite Comfy!

We decided to the next big Town along the Geneva to Zurich line; in this case, Nyon.

But first, lunch. Yummy pasta and the house's speciality too!

Little One taking his cars for a ride along as well... or are they his audience?

Mummy's boring lunch... Poor Mummy, having to take the boringest in case Little One didn't like his. But in the end...

Aaaaaaaaaaah

What a wonderful view? Where are we?

It's called Chateau De Nyon. Read more about it here

Like other castles, its big and imposing and certainly one of the many castles that are in Switzerland. Heck, almost every town/city has one!

And the views... Glorious!

And oh, by the way, we are going to walk to down there... from up here, the parapets.

But first, what is this? What is this glass monstrosity? It's a lift to the parking lots. Very ingenious...

Can you see the Chateau in the background?

Wheeeeee... Wine Shrubs! The closest I'll ever get!

And like most town/cities on Lake Geneva, look at the boats...

Another side of Lake Geneva.

What's in there Little One?

And along the way back up from the Lake to the train station, we came across a Catholic Church.

Pretty eh?

And while we were there, the organist was pratising away so we enjoyed listening to the Pipe Organ.

Quite steep but no-where matching the World Famous Dunedin Steep Street though.

The End.