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September 08, 2017

Évian-les-Bains

Stuart and I sit on a park bench looking out on the lake, eating our lunch of hard-boiled eggs, bread, cheese, and ham. We're waiting for our clothes to finish washing in a laundromat in town.

It's just around the corner from Source Cachat, the spring where evian® water originally came from.

The Évian saga goes like this:

In 1789, the Marquis de Lessert, while walking in the Évian countryside, drank from the Sainte Catherine spring on the land owned by his friend, M. Cachat. The nobleman subsequently discovered he was cured from the kidney and liver diseases he had been suffering from.

Soon, imperial scientists and physicians were ascribing curative qualities to the spring water from the tiny rural town. M. Cachat fenced off the spring, renamed it Source Cachat, and proceeded to bottle its water.

Photo from evian® website.

Thus was born the magic that is Évian today. Our laundry is rinsing at this very moment in the world's most perfect water! 😊

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Later, we take the funicular and walk around the fragrant wooded hill at the top.

Hotel Ermitage is up there. It's gorgeous...I want to stay there, I say wistfully.

So we're staying for two nights until we go back to Zürich for my birthday and then our flight home...

It's perfect! We can watch tonight's full moon rise from behind the mountains across the lake.

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We never did get to see the full moon. Too many clouds. But the sunsets were spectacular!

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On the ferry.

Leaving Évian, France crossing over to Lausanne, Switzerland. Across a lake, a 30-minute crossing, and it's a different world...

Whereas our train from Lausanne to Zürich left at 14:20 bang on time, the church bell in Évian always rang the hours five minutes late...

Labels: Évian, full moon, Hotel Ermitage, Source Cachat

posted by Alice Dimalanta Jones # September 08, 2017

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