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There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
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Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
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Gorgeous. Absolutely gorgeous photos of the lake and the sunsets. Especially the night pictures. Oh my, they're beautiful!!! If this doesn't get up the courage for my DH to make that long flight over the Atlantic, I don't know what will!!! I can't wait to show him these later tonight.
Glad you got some good parking spots, it sure sounded tricky. Dinner sounded delicious!
Tuesday 23 March – part one: do we really have to leave here?
We were awake not much after 6.00 and, I’ll be honest here, I didn’t have the greatest night’s sleep. It wasn’t anything to do with the room, which was very comfortable. It certainly turned out to be a lot warmer than I thought it would be last night. It had more to do with all the noise outside. The darned church nearby seemed to chime on the hour most hours during the night, which drove me insane and there was a fair bit of traffic around. The French women who crashed in at just after 11.00 (I knew what time it was from the clock chiming! weren’t exactly quiet either. It’s a shame, as it was a nice hotel, reasonably priced, but the location just didn’t work for me in getting a good night’s sleep. Mark did say that he’d be happy to come back here, but I’d prefer a lakefront hotel... more of that in a moment...
At least breakfast was included in the price and it wasn’t a bad spread either. You could choose from cheese, cold meat, a selection of drinks, croissants, rolls and cereals. We both had a few plates of food to start us off for the day and got some photos of the unique reception area. It’s certainly got a unique feel to it.
Then we headed back to the room to finish packing our stuff. Mark headed down to the car to load it and I went down to reception to check out, with me managing the whole exchange in French, which I was pretty impressed with. My next stop was the bakery across the road from where we’d been parking and, again, I was able to get what I wanted in French. Mind you, as I said to Mark, it wasn’t hard when one thing you wanted was a pain au chocolat and the other was a croissant! Having said that, I did spot something I liked the look of and was able to ask what it was in French. It turned out to be a chocolate croissant, so I went for that, instead of a plain old croissant.
With that done, we set off and decided to head back down to the lakefront to get a final few photos. We really had fallen in love with the view down there and were both very sad to be leaving it behind. Montreux had definitely found a special place in our hearts.
We parked up and wandered along the lakefront, getting a few last shots.
As I wandered back to the car, I spotted various hotels that looked as if they had nice views of the lake and the mountains and made a mental note of them. Hmmm.... maybe if we came back here, we could stay in one of those next time?
Sadly, we couldn’t put it any longer and it was time to leave Montreux, so we drove out, heading for Bern. On the way, I decided that we should stop at Fribourg. My guidebook listed it as one of Switzerland’s most attractive towns and it wasn’t wrong.
I wanted to see the town hall here and the Cathedral St. Nicholas and both were duly ticked off the list. We stopped so that I could take some photos and Mark could check why his cell phone kept making a noise. The answer? We’ve no idea. Maybe it kept thinking it was going between France and Switzerland or just different cell phone operators. There was no rhyme or reason to it.
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Okay, I am finally all caught up after having major internet problems over here. First, all of your pictures of the lake are just gorgeous! I hope you get to go back there again, and get to stay in a room with a spectacular view! Second, that castle was very interesting, especially the latrine photos ! I do have to say though, it looks like they use to sleep in very small beds .
So I had like 6 pages to get caught up on, but I am caught up now.
The hotel in Geneva was beautiful as well as the city! And what a great room, especially with that balcony!! The Jet d’Eau was neat, but I can see where you’d want to stand back quite a bit from it.
Another beautiful cathedral in Lausanne! Did you ever really get sick of them?
Great photos of the castle in Montreux. What an incredible place. That was some interesting artwork at your hotel, especially in the room. Loved the pictures of the sunset! Sorry about your tummy troubles! I hope you were over them soon.
Great photos as usual too!
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weren’t exactly quiet either. It’s a shame, as it was a nice hotel, reasonably priced, but the location just didn’t work for me in getting a good night’s sleep. 
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! I do have to say though, it looks like they use to sleep in very small beds 
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