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We walked down for a bit then jumped on a train. It's hard to get the perspective here, but it's quite a weird experience getting off the train onto a sloping platform.

It was suggested to us that, as Lausanne is very hilly, it's best to catch the train to the top and then walk down. The Cathedral in my previous post is at the top. We roamed around the very sleepy town for a bit.

The Cathedral of Notre Dame Wikipedia: "Construction of the Cathedral began as early as 1170 by an original unknown master mason. Twenty years later another master mason restarted construction until 1215. Finally a third engineer, Jean Cotereel, completed the majority of the existing cathedral...

The next day we caught the ferry over to Lausanne. The wharf is only a 5 minute walk from the hotel and is €39 return. We were advised to purchase the "City Ticket" which gives "Hop-on, Hop-off" access to the trains and buses. As it was a public holiday for Ascension Day, everything other...

In the Evian area

Evian - The home of Evian Mineral Water. As accommodation is quite expensive in Geneva, JV found a Hilton in Evian overooking Lake Leman (or Lake Geneva as the Swiss and most of the world call it). Most of the southern shore of the Lake is in France and the Hilton is only an hour's drive...

Switzerland and les Alps We arrived at Geneva airport on the Swiss side, however we had a car booked from the French side. No problem... just walk through a doorway - monitored by a customs person, checking to ensure that we have actually arrived by air on an international flight, and voilà...

Another shuttle back to the airport at 5.30am to catch the flight to Geneva via London. Sorry, I don't have any photos of the lounge in Athens. We visited the Galleries Lounge for a short transit of approximately 1½ hours... Two BA flights, and the service and food on board was...

We then dropped the car off at the car hire yard and they drove us to the airport. We'd organised a ride with the hotel shuttle. This was a cost of €15 per room. To catch a cab is around €30. The trip is around 20 mins so we thought €15 was a pretty good deal. We had a better view from our...

We had dinner at a little restuarant in the National Gardens. This was our last night in Greece. The meal wasn't anything out of the box but the ambiance was nice.,, until it started to rain. .

Back to Athens. We dropped our luggage off at the hotel (yes... Wyndham... another free night) and headed into the city to see the changing of the guards in front of the Hellenic Parliament. Very entertaining and quite theatrical. This happens every hour on the hour. and takes approx 15...

Back to the hotel and load our luggage into the car again and head back to Athens. On the way through to Delphi we went through a lovely village, Arahova, that is apparently a very popular spot for skiers. There is a ski station there along with ski and snow board hire. I can imagine it would...

We arrived in Delphi early afternoon and the area was swarming with buses and cars. We had received advance warning that all the sites are really busy in the middle section of the day. So we visited the Museum and the Sanctuary of Athena around 3pm. The following morning we headed for the...

The Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia Entry to this area is free. It's a 10 minute walk down the hill from the Museum and Archeological Site. Oh look JV... more poppies!!! A sunset to finish the day

On advice from the Receptionist at the hotel, we visited the Museum that afternoon. The cost to enter the Museum and the Archeological site was €12 per person. This can be taken over 2 days. Pair of identical marble kouroi, possibly depicting two heroes from argive mythologhy. The work of an...

The drive up through the mountains and the little town of Arahova was beautiful.

We were quite sluggish the next morning, understandably, for our journey to Delphi, or Delfi or Delfoi. We had read that the crowds are big in Delphi in the middle of the day, so best time to visit is afternoon - late as possible, or early morning. Thankfully, that allowed us to recover...

The trainee phoned a restaurant that was only 10 minute walk from the hotel (Artemis) https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g1189587-d5006151-Reviews-Artemis-Vravrona_East_Attica_Region_Attica.html to see if they could accommodate us. The restaurant staff member asked if we were ready to...

We needed a hotel close to the airport and as mentioned above, we had enough points for another 2 free nights with Wyndham. They have a hotel in Attica (Dolce Attica Riviera) which is 15-20 minutes from the airport and has a shuttle service (EUR15 per room, not per person). Seemed like a good...