A Weekend in Switzerland

I spent a wonderful weekend in Switzerland at the start of December. This time I didn't go skiing, although with the amount of snow that had fallen it was definitely skiing weather. In fact the flight out was delayed going while the runway at Geneva was cleared of snow. I went to the Christmas Market in Montreux, which is set in a stunning setting at one end of Lake Geneva.The market was lovely with all the stalls set up along the water front and for the first time this year I felt very festive :)

The whole place was adorned with weird and wonderful wood carvings!

The sunset was beautiful casting orange reflections in the lake, and you also had the feeling that the winter snows were never too far away. It was a stunning sunny afternoon, but bitterly cold.

The second and final day was spent at a French Sunday market just across the border in Divonne.

Where else could you buy frog's legs! And no I didn't :)

It was another freezing day and a nice warm glass of vin chaud went down well, and I wonder how little this scene must have changed over the years.

The beauty of going to the market was we were able to buy our lunch from the stalls and take it back into Switzerland and eat it :)

I have to concede that I am not a huge fish fan, but these buggers were pretty impressive!

The weekend raced by, but a great time was had and I am looking forward to going back to ski in March. I didn't even mention the Saturday night Thai meal in a "dry" restaurant! The boys were not best pleased :)