Pretty hot this morning in Lausanne, so I bought the Sunday Times at the station and headed off for the mountains - Martigny, which is a 40 minute train journey. It's a nice spot for lunch, located in a valley surrounded by seriously high mountains all around and the starting point for the Mont Blanc Express and the St Bernard Express trains, of course they are anything but express, being a 90 minute trip but to be fair they are climbing upwards all the way; that will be for another day! Arrived back to Lausanne and went to the lake side area of Ouchy, which is just a 10 minute walk from home and shock, horror, they had a Line Dancing music festival in full flow!!! Always reminds me of the film Mars Attack, where the only thing the Aliens were afraid of was Country and Western music and who can blame them - aren't we all!    more »

Saturday pitched up for dinner with the McGregors and met Rod's Dad, Peter and his wife Marion -- who are MacGregors. The Gregors are confused KIWI's - we have exchanged emails on the subject - the poor man's ancestry hails from Scotland and back in NZ he drinks in an Irish Club! Had a great evening - nice people!   more »