Tour to Lausanne
Finally we went to Lausanne.
We took the train from Geneva gare to Lausanne because it is faster and it was raining.
We went to the Olympic museum first. It is a very building park by the lake. Even though, there is rain, it is still very interesting.
Then we had a sandwich and walked back and up to the old town center. The cathedral is very beautiful. The own town is similar to the old town in Stockholm. The narrow street up in the hill was all built with stones. I'm sure in the evening it also shines because they put marble stone in the middle.
There are many layers of buildings in the city center. It's an old city, but very pretty too.
We went to the biggest cathedral which is somewhat under reparation. We walked through the alleys and streets. It's a sense of history and culture.
Then we went to the museum of art, history, geology and archeology as well as an exhibition of Alice Bally's works. Alice's work was done in early 19th century and it mainly depicts the life and women in those days in Lausanne.
The day goes quickly, but it is very fruitful because we finally arrived there and had a good visit.
In fact last week we went to cycling and thought we could go there by bike because I heard it only took more than half an hour. In fact, this morning with only one stop, we arrived there by 35 minutes. But when we came back, we took one hour.
By miscalculation and stop for lunch, we couldn't make it by bike. Let alone, we have ended up in the express way which was forbidden. We tried to come back but it was hard at the beginning. So we went on. But some kind hearted people called the police and when we stopped and found our way back already, the police arrived.
They asked my passport and asked if we could speak English. I spoke both English and French and explained the situation. One police said we should follow the blue sign, but not green sign because green sign means express way, fast highway. The other police said we in principle should be fined or punished in some ways, but considering that we were the first time to bicycling in Geneva, we are forgiven, but we must know the rules.
We promised to go back by bike track through the field and thank them for their care.
We rode five hours bikes for the day and came back facing the sunlight. It was a wonderful day and it was a not bad experience seeing Swiss police. It was also impressive that many people hooted us and showed that we were against the rules. Knowing that we were wrong, but I didn't know what was the way out. Only when we arrived at the parking place, did we know that we could have a small path to go to the field road for cycling.
Geneva is really a great city. Nice people, nice drivers and nice police.
