Lausanne and Montreux

The Train Ride
Yesterday, just my family went on a day trip. We visited anotherFrench speaking part of Switzerland. Since it was just us, we took the train. The train ride to Lausanne was about 2hrs and 15mins. Before we got on the train we bought some pastries and pretzels to eat on the train for breakfast. The pretzels were so good! We got his one kind that was a butter pretzels, it was basically a pretzel cut in half, with butter inside! YUM!

When we got on the train, we ate breakfast. It was a really nice train.  We chilled there until the ticket guy came. He told us that we were sitting in first class. We had to get up and move down two cars to get to second class. It was still nice in second class though. I even slept a little. It was nice.


Lausanne
We got to Lausanne, and the weather was so nice. The great part was, I didn't need my coat. The annoying part, I had to carry it around. Even so, it was still awesome. We were going to the old part of Lausanne, and we had to walk up this GIANT hill. It was really tiring, but totally worth it, because at the top I got a great view of Lausanne. And another cool thing, we walked by Rue Caroline! And there was a Caroline Centre Commercial (Mall).

Me infront of Caroline Centre Commercial on Rue Caroline.

Lausanne from the top of the hill.

Cathedral
Also at the top of the hill was this really old cathedral: the Cathédrale de Lausanne. It started being built in 1175! So yeah, it is really old. And really, really beautiful. It is made out of stone and there are these awesome stained glass windows. One window, called the Rose Window, has all the months of the year represented and all of the star signs. The window on display today is a reproduction, but it is still breath-taking. There was also this organ inside, and this guy was playing it. He was really good. 

The Rose Window

Some of the star signs

Pretty reflections of the stained glass.

Another cool part of the cathedral. It was so old that most of the noses were worn off!

The inside

Lunch
We ate at this cute café, where I ordered in French! I asked for de l'eau (water) and it was pretty epic. I also asked where the bathroom was: "Où est les toilettes?" For lunch I ate a sandwich on a roll, with lettuce, tomato and goat cheese. It was really good. After lunch we walked around a little, took some pics and then headed back to the train station. We had to walk down that really big hill.

Us in front of a statue after lunch.

Montreux
We took a train to Montreux, which was only about 20 mins away.  We had too look around a while to find the information center, but eventually we found it. Montreux has this really pretty garden on the lake (Lac Leman). There were so many bright flowers and it smelled really nice. I wanted to chill there for a while, but we decided to go to Chillon to see the cool castle there.

In the garden

Moose!

Château de Chillon 
We took a boat ride there. The castle was built in the 12th century, right on this rocky surface, so in some rooms of the castle there was giant uneven rock on the floor. There was over 40 rooms. We walked through almost all of them. We even went into the dungeon, which was kinda creepy. In one part of the dungeon, there was a projection of figures on the wall. I think they were supposed to be ghosts. I tried to get a picture, but my flash washed it out. All the doors were really low, because people were shorter back then. I had to crouch through most of them. And we climbed all the way to the top. There must have been like, 8 staircases. It was really tiring, but it was really cool at the top.

A passing scene from the boat ride.

Ellie on the boat.

The rocks on the floor.