A good friend of my husband's came to visit us in Geneva this weekend. After a long, gray, and rainy winter, we were lucky to get a weekend of sunshine. We took him to Yvoire, France. This is our second time to Yvoire, and this time we drove. If you do not have a car, you can take the train to Nyon from Geneva, and then take the boat to Yvoire. The boat ride is very nice, but it is far cheaper to drive. The drive itself goes along Lake Leman, which we refer to as Lake Geneva in the US.
We bought a deep fryer the other day, which we have both been very excited about. My husband spent the morning making donuts, and his friend asked him, "how do you make the holes in the donut?" And he replied, "You make a snake, and then the snake eats its tail." The donuts did not come out as well as we hoped--it absorbed too much oil, so we probably need to troubleshoot our recipe.
We took our two dogs to Yvoire as well. It is a beautiful medieval town on the water. There is a little jetty where there are ducks and swans, and a lot of little shops and boutiques. It is a good place to go for lunch, since most places have a lunch special. I have had fish twice there, and was very happy both times.
In the evening, we went to La Galerie for a friend's birthday party. Apparently it is a soup kitchen during the day and a bar at night. This explains some of their clientele. It was a really warm, inviting atmosphere, with bowls of chips laid out and blue grass music. However, there were a few people who looked like drug addicts, possibly also homeless, who hung around and harassed people (in particular, women).
