Had a mani/pedi one day, the girl next to me was
having fake nails painted. A work of art really, included small jewels and
flowers painted on. The manicurist took a picture it was that pretty. Certainly
not my taste but do appreciate the artfulness of it.
As said, Bruce bought a new set of wheels, larger than his other scooter with the intention that it would handle trams and trains better. Our first tram experience with the new bike went
quite well, with one snag, and no, he didn’t hit anyone! Just hit the edge of
the tram shelter and drove off the sidewalk onto the track, no tram arrived, so
while it gave me quite a scare and Bruce too, all worked out.
Who knew, maybe you did, Lausanne is mostly French,
certainly I didn’t. It is on Lake Geneva which borders France so perhaps we’ll
take boat trips to France while here.
I’m tired of talking about Bruce’s “wheels” and
have decided to name them. They are now called Pepe le Pew, being black and
white, like the animated skunk and I’m sure they will sometimes be like one,
not by smell, but by getting to places. See next paragraph.
Transport on trains isn’t easy with a bike this
size. I was told to truck it! So now when we thought it would make life easier,
it’s made it harder. Decision made to leave it behind and take the little
one. Sometimes you just have to go with
the flow, or lack thereof.
Met up with D & E our partners for drinks and
dinner on their arrival from France, good chat. Next day together we met
downtown Freiburg at a local beer garden with Christoph and his two younger
sons. The children played in the next door playground while the adults
conversed. It was a long lunch but tasty and full of good humour and
conversation. Started off in German with Christoph and D & E, I’m thinking
they wanted to find out communication skills between them, thankfully switched
to English thereafter.
Off to Lausanne, the day arrived, going into the
unknown again. Train trip was comfortable and very scenic, one could see over
several valleys at once, many types of green. It’s haying season right now so
many tractors tedding hay or bailing.
Get to the flat, Mike has left us the keys in a
mailbox, figure out how to work the garage door and Bruce and wheels are in.
Find the flat, it’s a bit different, on the ground floor but suspended above
the street. Very modern, austaire really, in everything but clean, spacious and
light. Has a view of the Notre Dame Cathedral we look forward to visiting.
Overlooks a nature park, which provides us with lots of green space to look at.
The usual issues, my phone ran out of minutes in
Germany and I didn’t upgrade it so couldn’t contact Mike our landlord. Can’t
get onto the internet with this machine, it says okay then bumps me off. So
Mike showed up at the door the next morning to do an orientation, thank
goodness. He couldn’t get the Net running either, but got the phone going.
Showed me the laundry room, he has a "credit card" that allows the washer/dryer to run on his dime. Typical orientation for using a long term flat. I like
the fellow, he was welcoming and showed us around the appliances in the flat.
We got in around 1800 or 6 pm that first night,
next day was getting food and drinks in, Coop down the street has just about
everything we need, including electronic converters. They are on a different
plug in system we didn’t expect, so aside from getting Francs, they don’t use
the Euro here as much, and the converters, things here are typical.
All good and just the basic stuff of moving into a rental.
Lexi doesn’t like us being outside and out of her
reach so even with the patio door open a notch she got through to the outside,
but was easily captured because all she really wanted was to be cuddled. Leashed she’s okay but has
escaped into the night, running through the terraces. Ever try to find a black
cat in the dark? Good thing she has white paws.
Lausanne rises above Lake Geneva so it is hilly
from bottom to top. We’re either going to get in better shape walking those
hills or use the metro system which looks good, or cab.
Coming into Lausanne we started to see the lake
kilometers back, it is huge! Perhaps as
large as the largest of our Great Lakes in Canada, no data on that but seeing
it on a map and seeing it in person is a whole different concept.
We’ll be happy here for a month but told Mike we’d
be moving on to the place near Zurich beginning of September.
With the what are now coming to be expected usual
glitches in moving to a new flat we deal, better each time. If you’ve been
following since our time in Heidelberg it took a lot longer, each time gets
shorter due to our “experience knowledge”, so glad to have learned it.
Some trouble with the internet connection here specifically saving the blog, will keep trying, pictures won't load. Will find a WiFi spot that works better for next time.
Cheers, Bx2 & Escaping Lexi Cat
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