It’s been a long, and very warm, day. Our cruise is over and we’re off on our bus trip. We crossed from France into Germany. Then a long drive, going really fast, on the Autobahn and into Switzerland.
Here’s one of our first views of the Swiss countryside, with some hills starting to appear.
We stopped at a town called Vevey for lunch and a walk along the promenade on the north shore of Lake Geneva. We heard that this is the town where the chocolate company, Nestlé, was founded in the mid 1800s, but we didn’t see any Nestlé stores on our walk. The sky is quite hazy today, our guide said it’s because it’s so hot (37°) at lunchtime. We sure hope it’s cooler tomorrow and we get clearer views of the lake.
After lunch we went for a short ride to a Charle Chaplin museum called Chaplin’s World. We learned he moved to an estate on the outskirts of Vevey after he was banned from living in the US in the late 1952 as they accused him of being a communist. Something Chaplin denied (he said he’s a peace monger, not a communist). He lived out his final days at this estate and now his home has been turned into a museum of not only highlights of his career but his private life as well. We watched a short film of bits of his movies and some interviews he did, then toured mockups of movie sets and his home (that looks just as if he still lives there.
The title of this posting is a quote from Charle Chaplin, that makes so much sense we just had to remember it.
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