We went up to Belhurst Castle, just outside Geneva, to have brunch with Laurie's parents and Herb and Barbara who were visiting from DC. They are about to take a vacation to the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It sounds like a great trip. It would be fun to travel as much as they do - they said these were almost the last countries in Europe they had not been to, having been nearly every other place. They haven't been to Moldova or Belarus, but had been to the Soviet Union when they were all together, so it partly counts for them.

Anyway, Belhurst Castle is one of those places that used to be a big house and is now a hotel and restaurant. Its a glorious red sandstone castle-house in a Richardsonian-Romanesque style, and has fabulous workwork on the inside. We'd been up there before, with great food and long lines at the buffet. This time, the lines were almost non-existent, and the food was ok, but not as good as it had been before. Its too bad, really, but I found enough to eat.