We visit Switzerland in 1986 as part of 3 months of travel in Europe in our new VW Jetta. We enter at Lake Geneva (Lake Leman on the Switzerland map) after going thru Alsace and the Jura Mountains in France (#11). After a lunch stop in Lausanne, we decide to go around the lake to Evian les Bains for cheaper French hotel and restaurant prices. We stay at the Palais Hotel for four nights, mostly resting and washing clothes, and enjoying the scenic waterfront where we sit and watch sailboats and ducks go by on the lake, and people strolling along the shore. It is very quiet and peaceful!
At the post office we buy a box and mail home about eleven pounds of accumulated maps, brochures, and Michelin Red and Green guides we won’t need again on this trip.
One day we drive up the valley of the Dranse River with its steep wooded rock walls and kayakers riding the rapids of the river. Over the summit we wind down to Cluses, a very pretty town where we have a good trout lunch. Then we drive towards Chamonix with Mont Blanc looming in front of us. It is mostly covered with clouds, but we can see parts going up, up, up. We return almost to Geneva, then to the scenic, but touristy, medieval village of Yvoire on Lake Leman before returning to Evian.
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