Getting into Lausanne after dark, we dropped our stuff at the hostel and headed to grab some food.
I dislike Switzerland for a number of reasons (sorry, Grampa Amann) the most important of which was the fact that a simple McDonalds cheeseburger was 2.50 CHF. Which, converted to US Dollars is somewhere in the ball park of $2.80. For a cheeseburger at McDonalds. Ridiculous.
Luckily the walk to Old Town was straight up hill, so I burned off my dinner snack very quickly. We snapped shots of the Cathedral of St. Francis before heading up the most photographed staircase in Europe, the stairs du Marche which lead up to Notre Dame Cathedral (Lausanne Cathedral). The view of the city lights toward the lake were pretty even at night. Our night ended as we trekked back past their massive museum complex and the Lausanne Palace and Spa.
The next morning, we were off to Geneva to meet up with Molly- separate post for Geneva.
Returning around 2 to Lausanne, we spent the afternoon on the same trail we had used the night before. Sunlight changed things a bit, though the most memorable part of the city was eating lunch watching a drunk or crazy person sing some song about gravity very poorly. It was the most entertaining thing I had seen in a long time and the man was completely that everyone was staring at him as he stumbled up the street wailing a mix of mumbled german and english words.
We ended down by the lake in the Ouchy region. This is where the Olympic Committee is housed. The olympic museum was under construction so we walked through the park and parked ourselves on a bench overlooking the lake with some gorgeous views of the Alps.
For dinner that night, we found an asian place that was not awful and only charged 14.50 CHF per plate. Switzerland is so ridiculously expensive.
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