The beaver is a proud and noble animal
Notes from a bemused canuck
While the oldies have been in town, we’ve tried to show them more of Switzerland. Last week, we went to the Sauvabelin zoo, and this past weekend, we went to Gruyere and Geneva. As a side-effect of these jaunts, I have several hundred pictures that I need to process and upload to the blog. While this is happening, please enjoy a tiger yawning – taken from the zoo trip.
SO FLUFFFFFFYYYYYY!
But you can’t take the Leicester out of the woman. How else would you explain belching out loud at a Michelin 2-star restaurant?
Company aside, the food was brilliant. Veal in a lemongrass soup, foie gras with strawberries and a balsamic glaze, grilled fish on tomatoes and fennel with a basil foam, bison with spring veg and a mushroom emulsion, a very nice cheese board and a chocolate and cardamom sorbet. And wine. Lots of very nice wine.
We like the Petit Manoir.
I has gas! Can I get a what? what? We’re going to be able to bbq on the garcony from today. It’s had a good burn and a good cleaning, the grills have been seasoned, now all we need is some MEAT!
One of the cool, quirky aspects of Morges is that it has a large population of wild-ish ducks. As we were leaving for school / work this morning, we saw a pair of them just chillin’ on the lawn.
We astroturfed the balcony :-) it actually feels reeeeaaaaallly nice. And we have an apple tree, and flowers (orange, of course) and owls, and foo dogs, and the beginning of some veg boxes. Next step is to get a gas bottle for the BBC.
… is one of the reason I wanted to move here.
Sitting on the beach right now, watching Bean making sandcastles, hoping he doesn’t get eaten by a swan, hearing other exasperated parents saying things like don’t throw rocks at the swans, leave that boy’s castle alone, you’re getting on my nerves… Not just me :-)
I keep saying things like she didn’t mean to, stop throwing sand, there’s enough beach for everybody…
Gorgeous weather though.
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More pictures put online here: https://www.flubu.com/blog/pictures/morges_mar_2014/
Went to Schilliger to pick up some gardening supplies for the patio. They have chickens, roosters, ducks, pheasants and budgies.
Saw the biggest, fluffiest chicken evar!! and a very ambitious rooster half he size.
The scenery couldn’t be better: the medieval chateau of Chillon, the waters of Lake Geneva and, lolling on a rock in the foreground, bikini-clad model Kate Bock. Bock and another skimpily attired model posed for photos in and around the lake for American magazine Sports Illustrated’s 50th anniversary swimsuit issue.
The annual issue, described by Vanity Fair as a cash register in the shape of a girl, went on sale on Tuesday, annoying feminists but pleasing others, including the canton of Vaud’s tourist office. The office and Switzerland Tourism rolled out the red carpet for the magazine when it sent its photography team and cast of bikinied models to Switzerland for six days last August for on-location shooting.
“This project is a unique opportunity to present at a large-scale international level some of our major sites, such as the chateau of Chillon and Lavaux (the Unesco-designated vineyard area overlooking Lake Geneva),” Andreas Banholzer, director of the Vaud tourist office said in a news release issued on Tuesday.
An estimated 70 million readers of the swimsuit issue, published between the American football and baseball seasons, will see glimpses of Lake Geneva scenery — behind the bathing belles at the centre of attention.
Bock, from Canada, and Genevieve Morton, a model from South Africa, posed in the town of Vevey, in the vineyards of Lavaux and on the shores of the lake and in boats on the water. Morton even provocatively posed topless, with one arm strategically placed to avoid revealing too much, on a sailboat in the middle of the lake with the Vaud Alps in the background.
Meanwhile, near Zermatt, American Emily DiDenato modeled a two-piece swimsuit in front of Switzerland’s iconic Matterhorn. The issue features the likes of Kate Upton, Tyra Banks and Christie Brinkley who posed for shots elsewhere, in such places as the Cook Islands.