Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Fribourg

In our hotel parking lot:

For Aharon - models of all the vehicles in the Tintin comics:

 Around town:




 The medieval Lower Town


 For Aharon and cousins:
 Guess who took the funicular and who walked up the hill?

 From inside the funicular:
 An interesting reliquary. How would you like to have one of these in shul?
 Shimshon:


Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Geneva

Stunning railings in the UN Library:

 A big chair:
 Peacocks at the UN Library. Apparently the guy who gave his estate to the League of Nations stipulated that they always had to keep peacocks on the premises.


Chillon Castle, Lake Geneva


Graffiti by Lord Byron:

 An old toilet:
 I thought the Swiss didn't allow minarets to be built?
Apparently it's OK if the right people built it