I'd climbed 3 of the 4 rides I wanted to climb out of Martigny, I was
due another rest day...
I took the train to Lausanne to climb up and down the steep city.
Not exactly a rest day...
I got off the train, took the Metro up to Old Town and followed the
Rick Steves walk
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The old town was the nicest part of Lausanne, there was a couple
singing in the street for tourist tips...
But old town was only a relatively short stretch, the rest of it just
felt like another city to me..
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PANO - scroll right
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The Painted Portal of the Cathedral
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Outside the cathedral were signs for the archeology museum.
I followed the signs to the archeology museum and ended up outside to
the Palais du Rumine
It was market day, or rather, garage sale day.
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The museum is free, the attendent gives you a sticker to put on your
shirt.
Unfortunately there are only French descriptions
I later determined that Rick's walking tour ends at Palais du Rumine,
he approaches from a different direction.
Rick tells you about the free WCs inside the Palais and says the Palais
has a "couple of skippable museums"
Pretty lazy to not even list what museum he doesn't think you'd be
interested in...
The museum has local artifacts dating back over 5000 years...
According to wikipedia:
Jean-Abram Noverraz
was a footman to Emperor Napolean, and he accompaniad him to the island
of Saint Helena.
When Napolean died, he gave Noverraz many items to be given to
Napolean's son.
Unable to do so, those items, along with lots of other Napolean related
stuff like one of a couple dozen Napolean death masks, ended up here
Bronze Age 1800BC cattle pen
The stakes are oak, the braids are oak and hazel.
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Bronze Age 1800BC alderwood tool - you drag it on the ground to make
furrows
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Dusty: Laussane has a nice old town and is pretty, but it is also just
another crowded city..
Dusty: I skipped the lakefront, couldn't care less about an Olympic
museum....
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Kent: I enjoyed the carvings in the church there most
Kent: It was a torrential alp storm, so spent most of my time in
the covered stairways investigating the tags and spotting wild animals
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Dusty: Church was fine but i am spoiled, i didn't look at the carvings
there..
Dusty: i did stare at the woodwork in Sion, you'd think it was
completed last week, it is all immaculate...
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Dusty: I honestly had no idea that humans in Europe made stuff this
good 4000-5000 years ago..
Dusty: who'd have known (other than Kent!)
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Kent: That stuff is incredible
Kent: Way way before Romans
Kent: They were doing grapes back then too!
