Jack R Thompson

We spent four days in Geneva and enjoyed them as much as any of our other stops in Switzerland. In addition, we celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary here including a wonderful dining experience at a 20 person Italian restaurant called La Cittadella in Old Town Geneva. We could easily return to this beautiful city. Switzerland…

We like to celebrate our wedding anniversaries in different places around the world. We got married at a small country inn by a Justice of the Peace in West Townshend Vermont on October 2 1998. For our 25th we chose Switzerland and today we happened to be in Geneva. We had a wonderful day in…

Lucerne is a very beautiful city. It sits on the shore of Lake Lucerne and then straddles the Reuss River which is fed by the lake. It has beautiful medieval architecture, a vibrant Old Town area, a 14th century wall, two wooden bridges (the beautiful Chapel Bridge dates to 1333), a beautiful Jesuit church and…

We spent three days based in Basel and one of those was spent traveling to Colmar France. Basel has much to offer so we did not begin to scratch the surface. The Rhine is a large and beautiful river that divides the city. It has suburbs in France and Germany and we ventured into both…

We came to Basel Switzerland to learn about the cultural influence on a Swiss City that lies right between France and Germany. What occurred to me after arriving was that perhaps I could pass through all three countries in one run. Did it the morning of September 26 and with only a six mile jaunt…

On Saturday we ventured further east on the north shore of Lake Geneva to Montreux, its immediate neighbor to the east, Veytaux, and Vevey to its west. Montreux is the second home of Freddie Mercury and Veytaux is home to the Château de Chillon, a castle with origins to the 11th century that was built…

The Lausanne Botanical Garden has an entire exhibit dedicated to carnivorous plants. Who knew? In any case, they are beautiful plants so I thought that I would share a few.

On our second day in Switzerland, and the first with some sleep, we roamed the streets of beautiful Lausanne. Lausanne is about 150,000 people on the shore of Lake Geneva in the French speaking part of Switzerland, although English speakers are plentiful. It has a fabulous 12th century cathedral, the International Olympic Headquarters, is hilly…

We arrived the morning of September 20 2023 in Geneva for a two week stay in Switzerland. Our first destination is Lausanne but on the way we stopped in the lovely town of Nyon that sits on the shore of Lake Geneva. The town founded by the Romans, dates to 30 CE, is surrounded by…