our first destination in the "Swiss Riviera" was Montreux - a charming city at the foot of the Alps, only 45 minutes by train from Geneva...Vladimir Nabokov lived in this town (on the 6th floor of Montreux Palace Hotel) from 1961 until his death in ... about 3 kilometers from Montreux there is Château de Chillon - a semi-castle-semi-fortress that inspired Lord Byron to write his poem The Prisoner of Chillon...you can take a short bus ride to the castle from Montreux, ...
While in town you can explore Montreux?s old houses and crooked streets, or stroll along the quayside promenade by the lake. But the only way to discover.
...Château-d? Oex (pronounced shah-toh duh ? the ?oe? is said like the ?oo? in book and the ?x? is not pronounced), seeing Lake Geneva from Montreux and Vevey, and driving to Evian in France to see where the bottled water comes from. ...
