Le Labyrinthe Jardin des Cinq Senses and Telepherique Saleve

Busy weekend. We went to a small town called Yvoire about an hour from our house. The town has a 700 year old castle that you can walk around.

 They also have a garden of the five senses that was a maze of different kinds of plants, some for smell, touch, medicine (which included poisonous plants as well as healing ones), visual and plants for taste. The last picture is fox glove and is in many English murder mysteries...it can kill you!

 Boys found marmot hats (that are really more stuffed animals but for their heads!) These animals live in the mountains in the area. We hope to see some on one of our hikes! They named them Allen and Steve  from a marmot video on utube that is super funny,with talking marmot of course.

 On Sunday we went for a quick trip to the bakery to get morning bake of bread for our sandwiches for that days adventure. We were heading to the mountains in front of us (not the Jura behind us) and were going to take a cable car up to the top of the Saleve. Upon arrival we found the cars were not running due to the storm the night before. We are having almost 90 degree weather by day and thunder and lighting storms by night. It is quite dramatic and makes for a very cosy and cooler sleep. So fresh in the mooring after the rain. But not so good for Cable cars heading up to almost 4000 feet! 

We were able to drive to the top and have lunch and a short hike. Amazing views and crazy folks para gliding right of the side of the mountains. Took video but still don't know how to embed video into these blogs. You are looking down at Geneva from the other side. Jura mountaintop are in the distance junt not clear enough to see well.

Next ... We are heading to Rhinefalls on our way to Heidelberg!