Spent two weeks visiting my dad in switzerland
left to right
My Dad, My Uncle, My Grandmother, My Uncle.

Crazy cabbage I ate in switzerland, boiled it and it had sort of a brocoli taste but sweeter, awesome to look at.

making friends in Lousanne

Lousanne

the lake and the clouds in Lousanne

Freddie Mercury came to Lousanne to die, he won a memorial on the lake front for it, people still bring him flowers daily.

inside an oil-hurling tower.

A dogon

Blessed are the meek indeed.

Hillside wine cultivation and the tower where the locals used to go to throw hot oil on invading hordes of barbarians, seven hundred years ago.

Switzerland; a commercial for a beverage best served warm, only a country.

mountainside wine cultivation in switzerland.

The entrance to a series of abandoned buildings just aside the centre ville of La Rochelle that the authorities have simply ceded to graffiti artists

A globe with little boxes everywhere that francophonic music thrives. Believe it or not that is france, and all of france's former colonies!

This is one of the "Yelo" stands in La Rochelle, which prides itself on being a progressive city, first hour and a half rental of the bicycles is free and after that it's awfully damn cheap, you return them to any one of these stands that are all over the city.
They also have free electric busses, weird.
The bikes themselves are kept in good condition and are overall pretty nice, 3 speed, hand breaks, not terribly heavy, very well maintained, a cool civic program.

La Rochelle, Port entrance.

tide breaker in La Rochelle

La Rochelle

La Rochelle is a port city in Charentien, the same region where I was doing the house stay with the dogs. 2 days after I visited it was hit by a tempest that killed 8 and left boats on the main roads