Lausanne; Saturday, 08 October, 2022

I’d already seen that the weather wasn’t supposed to be that good today, so I decided to have a lie in, a late breakfast and see what things were like closer to 11am. It was still raining at that point, but perhaps not as heavily as it had been, so I headed out of the hotel and made my way over to the Palais de Rumine which is home to a number of different free museums.

I spent a good couple of hours looking round the different museums in the Palais de Rumine, as well as taking in this impressive building. A nice feature of the building is that you can exit from the top floor directly out onto a pathway that runs close to the Cathedral, cutting off a pretty hefty climb up the hill.

I headed back to the viewpoint that I’d visited the previous night and then wandered round to the Cathedral to have a look around inside. It’s also possible to climb the tower of the cathedral, but given how much low cloud there was around it was pretty obvious that I wouldn’t be able to see much, so it felt a bit of a waste hiking up over 300 steps to not see very much.

From the Cathedral I headed back down into town and onto the station where I grabbed a quick bit to eat before hopping on a train to head along the lake down to Chillon and it’s very impressive Castle.

The Château de Chillon is one of the most visited tourist attractions in the country and readily features in any imagery of Switzerland, but by mid-afternoon on a wet Saturday in early October the castle was pretty quiet so I was able to tour round without too may other tourists.

By the time I finished looking round the castle I’d just missed the hourly direct train back to Lausanne, so I instead decided to catch the bus a couple of stops back towards Montreux and change in the town of Terriet onto the funicular railway which took me up to Glion high in the hills overlooking the lake. From here there are stunning views over the southern part of Lake Geneva, and an excellent spot to capture views of the Château de Chillon.

With almost perfect timing, after taking quite a few photos, and with the cloud starting to roll back in again, the rack railway train from Glion back down into Montreux arrived and I was able to hop on and head back down the hill in time to make the fast train back to Lausanne.

Back in Lausanne I headed down to the lake side again, arriving a few minutes before sunset so I was able to get some excellent sunset photos of the lake and surrounding mountains before hopping back on the metro up into town to grab some dinner before heading back to the hotel for a well deserved sleep.