Day 36: Vevey To Montreux

The villa 'Le Lac', designed by Le Corbusier. I was not impressed. It looked more like a prison or a dilapidated shack.

A paddle steamer . . .

. . . approaches the landing stage at Vevey. Eight steamers operate on the lake, all constructed early in the last century. It's the largest Belle Époque fleet in the world, and the boats have been classified as Historic Monuments of National Importance.

An ice cream parlour in Vevey. What can I say about Vevey? I can mention the usual collection of bizarre museums: the Museum of Cameras, the Museum of Games and the Museum of Food. I can also mention the many famous people who have lived or spent time here — Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, Charlie Chaplin, Graham Greene, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Gandhi, Freddie Mercury . . . 

We, however, had breakfast, and then moved on.

 As I've written before, I love quirky signs, and I was really amused by this one. 

From here to Montreux it's almost continuously built up. Old, rich people walk their fancy dogs along the lakeside promenade — which is pleasant enough, and festooned with exotic trees and gaudy flowers. There are many modern sculptures to be seen, such as the one above, which is a tribute to Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone. 

Moody sky over Lake Geneva.