The last leg of our journey in Switzerland was based in Lausanne. By that stage, I was feeling like all Swiss cities looked remarkably similar and had no appetite for photos (my enthusiasm was not high in the first place compared to Mum). We tried to visit the Sauvabelin Tower but after getting off at the right metro station, found that it was still too far away so we gave up and went back. Later (when we were back at the hotel) I googled again and found out that we saw the tower in the distance before we gave up. But to be honest, I did not find it particularly attractive as a place to visit so no loss. We grabbed something for lunch at the supermarket. We had dinner at Leonardo, a restaurant that I had reserved and their sauteed clam was the one dish I was looking forward to for this entire trip. And it turned out to be excellent so we went back to it the next day and ordered two saunteed clams for dinner. On the first dinner though, I ordered the tagliolini with black truffle cream to share with Mum and we both found it a bit too creamy for our taste such that we were only able to eat the top layer of it and the waitress though that we really disliked the dish and I had to explain that we just naturally have a small appetite (which is also true).
The second day was spent at Gruyeres. In retrospect, that was a total waste of time and we had to change trains to get there with the wait time between connections usually being half an hour. The only positive thing was that there are no ticket inspectors on regional connections unlike the connections between cities (in Switzerland, if you take the intercity trains, there are bound to be a ticket inspector every single time, on the clock. And it feels like each one does things a little differently, from just wanting to scan your half fare cards and stamp your tickets to wanting to look at passports in addition to the above). And there was not much at Gruyeres.
And that concluded our 9 days in Switzerland.
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