Delémont, looking up the main street running from the train station. |
I like this fountain. So do the little kids in town. |
Looking back toward the station. |
An interesting house. |
Looking toward the old center of Delémont. |
A Swiss Army Knife factory. Apparently there's been one in Delémont practically since the company was founded. |
The most comprehensive veterinary clinic I've ever seen. |
Looking toward the mountains. |
The Delémont youth hostel - highly recommended. |
A cool sculpture along one of Delémont's pedestrian paths. |
The Delémont train station, looking towards Courtételle. |
Arrival in Courtételle. |
A cool house just across from the train station. |
Looking up the main street. |
A closer view - the shop with the yellow awnings is Joliat Cycles. |
Looking toward the primary school and the church. |
Courtételle is a very pretty little town to just stroll around in. |
The church spire peeking above rooftops. |
A gorgeous Courtételle garden. |
Everywhere you look, you can see the mountains. |
More pretty village buildings. |
The mural (painted by Julie Joliat) on the Courtételle primary school. |
An old water fountain - I saw lots of these on various street corners. |
Joliat Cycles, owned by Stéphane (Gérard works here too). It's kind of ironic that I never learned to ride a bike, isn't it? |
The Joliat Cycles van - Laurent or Stéphane off to an urgent bike emergency. |
Joliats are everywhere you look in Courtételle! |
We even have a street named after us! |
Joliat Construction, another major Courtételle presence. |
The Courtételle church. After some googling, I think I've determined that it's called St. Sixte. |
The church interior - I absolutely love the simplicity and natural feel. This is one of the prettiest churches I've ever seen. |
Looking toward the choir loft and organ. |
The baptismal font. |
A closer view of the altar - I love the carved stone and glass. |
The cross above the altar is made of clear glass, so it reflects all the multicolored light from the stained glass windows. |
The church has these beautiful abstract stained glass windows. |
Only a couple of the windows are representative - I'm not sure which saints these are. |
A close-up of the abstract glass on the southern side. |
And the northern side. |
The windows flanking the altar represent the sacraments. |
The other sacrament window. |
The churchyard - there are lots of Joliats buried here. |
Looking past the churchyard up into the mountains. |
My cousin Gérard took me up on one of the mountains to look out over the Delémont valley. |
Looking towards Courtételle - it's just above and to the right of the picture's center. |
The eastern end of Delémont. |
Gérard took this picture of me with Courtételle just above and to the left of my head. |
Another shot of me with the view. |
Maurice, author of the huge Joliat genealogy book, and Gérard. |
Ouchy, Lausanne's waterfront district. |
Walking along the waterfront. |
Ouchy is a great place for people-watching. |
The giant weathervane - when you line it up with one of four concrete pillars, it tells you which way the wind is blowing. |
Fountains in Ouchy's wading pool. Kids love these. |
A giant game of chess. |
Boats like this take tourists and locals all over Lake Geneva. |
The end of the breakwater and the harbor sign. |
Looking towards Ouchy from the water. |
The giant star sculpture on the waterfront. |
Sunset in Ouchy. |
Another view of Ouchy from the water. |
Sailboats on the lake - it was a ridiculously beautiful day. |
A view towards the east. |
Getting close to the southern side of the lake. |
The little village of St. Gingolph on the south shore. |
Looking back towards St. Gingolph. |
A few of my fellow cruisers. |
Jetskiers racing a slalom course near Villeneuve. |
The town of Villeneuve. |
Chateau de Chillon. |
Chillon from further out in the lake. |
The Swiss flag, flying over the back of the boat. |
Montreux - the Riviera of Switzerland. |
I think the Montreux Jazz Festival might be going on right now. |
The Grand Hotel Suisse in Montreux. |
Vevey, just down the lake from Montreux. |
Another view of Vevey. |
Vevey's little harbor. |
Looking towards the south shore of the lake and the French Alps. |
A more southeastern view. |
Another sailboat - there must have been hundreds on the lake. |
The north shore, east of Lausanne. |
The terraced fields are mostly vineyards on the north shore. |
Coming back to Lausanne. |
Sunset over Lake Geneva. |
Place de St. Francois and the church of the same name, in the old town. |
Rue Bourg, full of expensive jewelers and watch shops. |
Looking up the hill toward the cathedral. |
A view down towards the lake and the French Alps, from in front of the cathedral. |
A more western view over the rooftops of Lausanne. |
The front door of the cathedral. |
The cathedral's nave - most of the ornamentation here was removed in the Protestant Reformation. |
The cathedral's famous organ. |
The only surviving medieval glass, in the southern rose window. |
A closeup of the rose. |
The old wooden Escaliers du Marché. |
You can't see it, but the window of this shop has about ten million Swiss Army knives on display. |
The Academie, now a high school. |