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On the Sunday of my Montreux holiday I went to Vevey, the city next to Montreux, because firstly, I expected better weather there, and secondly for the large flea market there (always an invitation to stroll around).

Quite a strong wind was blowing that day – wind and kite surfers probably liked it…

Vevey: Wind surfer Vevey: Kite surfer

…and the waves could let off some steam, too:

Waves in Vevey Waves in Vevey

Waves in Vevey

Projekt 52 And since these photos can easily be made to match this week’s topic of Projekt 52, “Poem interpretation” – a poem for a photo or a photo for a poem –, I’m using especially the last of the images above for this project, in combination with the poem “An den Mistral” (=”To the Mistral”)1 by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (see here in Projekt Gutenberg for its text – in German, of course).

Now let’s continue with the photos. In Vevey, I happened to come accross the final part of the Triathlon de la Riviera:

Triathlon de la Riviera, Vevey Triathlon de la Riviera, Vevey Triathlon de la Riviera, Vevey Triathlon de la Riviera, Vevey Triathlon de la Riviera, Vevey Triathlon de la Riviera, Vevey

Participants, if you don’t want to see your photo here, just drop me a line.

And on the way back, there was a jet ski race at Clarens:

Jet-Ski race Montreux

Jet-Ski race Montreux Jet-Ski race Montreux
Jet-Ski race Montreux Jet-Ski race Montreux

  1. even though that’s not a Mistral at Lake Geneva ↺

FMMMD 2008 Gallery

A selection of 33 34 of my photos from the Freddie Mercury Montreux Memorial Day 2008 is now online on its gallery page – mostly daytime and sunset photos, for I didn’t want to lug my big camera during the events and concerts, and the small pocket camera can’t cope well with low-light situation…

Freddies Statue und Umgebung
Panorama Freddies Statue Freddies Statue Freddies Statue

» See all 34 photos in the gallery!


The official site will surely display their own photos soon, too.

We all came out to Montreux…

Freddie-Statue bei Sonnenuntergang

On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To commemorate Freddie
We didn’t have much time
Rock4 and Queenie
Were at the best pl—

Um, no, gotta stop here, because the school auditorium of the CESSEV was, although quite suitable for the acapella concert by Rock4, certainly not the best place around. The Ned, though, a music club in an old factory basement or something like that, wasn’t a a bad place for a Queen cover band rock concert (and even for the shorter quasi-classical before that).

(And nothing burned to the ground, hence no smoke on the water.)

Aaaalright, now that I’m back home, I can admit that I was on holiday for the past few days (don’t want to tell the dear burglars where an apartment is unguarded); at the Freddie Mercury Montreux Memorial Day in, guessed it?, Montreux. Thanks to free Internet access included in the hotel price and occasionally some time, I wasn’t completely cut off from the blogosphere, though not as active as usually.

So in the next days, there’s a little flood of photos, thematically sorted. ;) But I rather held back with photographing things, actually.1

Well, that’s it for today…

  1. Only about 1200 photos. ↺

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