I still have Switzerland on my mind though - I keep pressing the Swiss keys on the keyboard and I keep trying to kiss people on the cheeks three times - as is the custom in Switzerland - rather than the two here in Spain. Anyway, here's a bit of a photo reel from the time I spent in the shadow of the Alps. Enjoy...
View of the Swiss Alps from the ferry from Vever to Ouchy
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The Internation Olympic Committee (IOC) is based in Lausanne! Hence they have created an Olympic Museum so that tourists may come and celebrate this fact. I didn't hear many rave reviews about the museum itself, but the statue park and gardens outside were lovely - though some of their museum and art collection peices strained comprehension. I didn't exactly know how to interpret this mural. At first I thought it was a graffitti wall, but then I realised it was an imagine of a foot stepping on a badly drawn cock. I don't know what it has to do with Olympics, but there you go.
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In answer to you imminent question... Yes! I was the model for this peice.
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I was good to see the IOC diversified their collection to include art pieces of homo-eroticism - not quite an Olympic sport yet though.
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Pleasure or pain?
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Okay okay... I'll remit. Here's the original, but you must admit the artist's interpretation of "bringing up the rear" really is quite literal.
Actually, when I looked again and counted only five wheels for three BI-cycles I was really quite impressed with their arrangement. Pretty cool!
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I would have liked to have seen how long the un-tangled nozzle was.
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"Ride Piggy, ride!" commanded the Genereal. And with that he gallantly rode his swine to victory.
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As we were walking on the sidewalk this charming rat scurried towards us a asked us if we knew of a good place to die. I showed him the bottom of my shoe but he said he was looking for something with self-catering.