Envigorated by our
trip to Gruyères, today we drove down the mountain to Chateau de
Chillon, near Montreux. The castle, which is located on the shore of
Lake Geneva, is apparently a conglomeration of numerous independent
buildings and dates back to at least the 12th century.
We're too cheap to pay to go inside, but we had a good look at the
outside and then headed along the path that rings the lake towards
Montreux.
Kate and I have
passed by the chateau numerous times on the train on the way to
Dorrie's, so it was slightly surreal to be walking along seeing
everything from the other side of the tracks. Unsurprisingly, the
path beside the lake is bordered on the other side by some very
large, very impressive and undoubtedly very expensive houses, many
with their own sweet little adjacent piers and moorings. The lake
itself was populated by quite a large number of exotic-looking ducks
and grebes.
We eventually made
it to Montreaux itself, where we bought some savoury pastries from a
supermarket and then walked back down to the lake to eat them. As it
was so cold when we left the house, Kate had let the girls wear their
Ugg boots, but Zoe had spent the latter half of the walk complaining
of hot feet. There was a little beach close to the chateau, so when
we made it back there, Kate made Zoe take off her Uggs and have a
paddle. Suffice to say she no longer complained of hot feet (which is
not to say that she stopped complaining...).
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