This is about my life in Zurich, all the places I visit, what I get up to with my son and anything I think is good to blog about.
Showing posts with label Vevey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vevey. Show all posts
Wednesday, 17 April 2019
Charlie Chaplin House and Museum, Vevey
During the February holidays Alessio and I went to visit the Charlie Chaplin House and Museum, which is situated in Vevey.
To be quite honest I did not know hardly anything about Charlie Chaplin except his movies and that he was married quite a few times. But this was remedied and I learnt quite a lot about him.
Charlie Chaplin moved to Switzerland in 1953 and stayed until 1977 when he died. He lived in a large house overlooking Lake Geneva in Vevey. He lived with his wife Oona O`Neil and they had 8 children.
The house is lovely and you see the furnishing, ornaments, pictures and photos from the family. Each room has written information about what you can see. The views of the garden are very nice too, we also walked around them too.
Once you have visited the house, there is a short movie about his life and then you go to the museum part. In the museum it is all about his life as an actor and his movies. There is lots to take in and read, and you can see things from his movies.
We both really enjoyed the visit and would recommend it, even if you don't know much about him and his life. You can buy tickets online and it saves you a bit of money and time. You can take a bus to the house/ museum and the stop it right at the gate.
Wishing you all a fab Easter break
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Monday, 4 March 2019
A Quick Trip to Vevey, Switzerland
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| Charlie Chaplin |
I hope you all had a lovely weekend. My weekend was very quiet and I did hardly anything at all. On Saturday Alessio had a football tournament and on Sunday we visited Park im Grün and had lunch there for a change of scenery from our flat.
During the February holidays I took a few days off work to do some things with Alessio. On the Friday we went for the day to Vevey in the French part of Switzerland, situated on Lake Geneva. The main reason for the trip was to visit the house and museum of Charlie Chaplin. Therefore we did not have much time to see Vevey. I will post about our visit to the house/museum another time.
Once we left the museum, we headed back in the centre and walked around the lake front and the old part. It has lovely shop signs like in Lausanne and the old buildings were also very nice. As you can see from the pictures it was a sunny day so by the lake front it was quite busy. By then it was time to head to the train station and get our train back to Zurich.
Wishing you all a great week ahead
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