LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND

Lausanne, the capital of the canton of Vaud, is superbly located 40 minutes from the big city of Geneva (well, big for Switzerland) and 20 minutes from the lakeside resort towns of Montreux and Vevey. Lausanne is a small city of only 125,000 people. If you travel a kilometer or two in any direction you wind up in vineyards or villages or by the lake. It is truly a city with an extremely high quality of life.

Ouchy

There are only two distinct neighborhoods in Lausanne: the beach and the city. Like most lake or seaside cities, the beach is where the city people head as often as possible. Lausanne's closest beach is in a district called Ouchy. It is where you will find open-air movie theaters, rollerbladers, ice skaters, cyclists, walkers (Self-guided tours), swimmers (Bellerive), visitors to the Olympic museum, long stretches of boardwalk, sunsets over Lake Geneva, French tourists, and sailors (Ciels Bleus).

The activities on the largest freshwater lake in Europe are practically endless. You can sail, fish, swim, water-ski, wakeboard, windsurf, ... more

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