We visited Yvette and her partner Pierre today for lunch. It was a wonderful reunion! Yvette served us a salad, ham and au gratin potatoes, dessert of merengue with double cream and a cheese selection.

Always elegant and delicious!

We had wonderful conversation over wine and food! All too soon we had to say our good-byes.

It was a lovely, but hot, day!

Back at Michel & Raymonde’s we enjoyed memories of our times together with the aid of the books Raymonde put together of their trips to the US. The trips in 2009 and 2011 were when Yvette joined them and they visited Bend again and met all our friends!

2009, First One
“Important trip, because this is Yvette’s first vacation in the USA.”

Aaah, we were so young and beautiful, now we’re just beautiful!!

We took the bus into Geneva early this morning on an errand to the train station to ensure that we have the proper reservations for our next journeys that will take us through several countries. We finished our chore and with paper reservations in hand we made our way back to Vandouevres and dressed for our lunch today at Le Cigalon.

Anticipating another wonderful meal with our good friends!

And it was!

Today’s highlight was a drive to a small medieval village on the banks of Lake Geneva just across the border in France. We took a short walk through the gate of the village and down flowery lanes crowded with tourists to a restaurant we visited 5 years ago, Les Jardins du Leman, for our lunch today.

A vignette of scenes around Yvoire, and the delicious food at the restaurant.

A silver domed spire of the local church dominates the skyline, while the small harbor has lots of pleasure boats.

We got up early this morning and used our new Geneva bus passes to ride into the city with the commuters.While most bus riders walked off to work, we walked to the waterfront to see this gentleman unlock the little box in the wall to push the button at 9am sharp to start the Jet d’Eau, the water jet that is the symbol of Geneva!

Watching it start up and shoot into the sky never gets old!

We then caught a tram to the Uni-Bastion, the park surrounding the University of Geneva main building where I spent 3 months in 2019 trying to learn french.

Scenes from around the University. The building is closed and swathed in scaffolding undergoing a much needed renovation! Once it’s remodeled I might come back and try french lessons again!

We caught the tram and the bus back to Vandoeuvres for a wonderful dinner prepared by Raymonde.

Even the “Basset” hound joined in!

Another evening walk with a great view. Mt. Blanc is somewhere out there!

Raymonde arranged a luncheon with friends today. We started with appetizers in the garden.

As the guests arrived Michel tried to help, but Raymonde had everything prepared! We enjoyed meeting new friends (to us) and getting reacquainted with friends from 5 years ago.

We moved inside to the elegantly laid dining table for the salad. Meanwhile John continued grilling in the garden. He grilled the variety of sausage we had with appetizers and the main meal includes bison, beef and lamb!

A wonderful meal with great company!

An evening walk, with Mt. Saleve in the background.