http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/...Wr55VDJsYimR-I

difficult to imagine too what the surrounding villages looked like in the 50s/60s. I used to spend much time there in then, as my godparents lived in Eysins- which consisted of a handful of farms and houses.

There is still a little row of funny old fisherman's huts on the shore. They stick out compared to the surrounding poshness. Still owned by real "typicaux locaux" as far as I could see.

Yes .. and you can buy from them / eat there in little impromptu dining if you happen to pass at just the right time.

Must go in the Spring and see if I can find the old farm where I used to stay. God father was the Manager of the big and fancy Placette there - in the 60s- not sure if it still exists - probably a Manor now- and small by comparison.

La Placette is still there and yes it is Manor now. It still has it’s winding staircase and part of the old structure. 😊

It‘s absolutely beautiful. I‘m one of those crazy people that tries to hold true our surroundings also in Zurich through a passion for videography. Thanks for sharing this.

wahoo- must go visit. I used to love it in the shop - godfather would ask one of the staff to take me round for the day and keep me busy - loved it.

Had this conversation recently on how the lake has had as many as 10 different names

was the train to Divonne still running? It went right past Eysins. The tracks actually are still there as far as the Landi.

Still a few farms but only a handful. Mostly a bedroom community for Nyon, Geneve and La Côte.

I'm aware of this old pic from that train line in one of the neighbouring farming villages.

https://www.borex.ch/net/com/5706/Im...rique/gare.jpg

I understood the trains stopped running to Divonne in the 60s.

And for Eysins, it still has a lot of farms. Only the centre has seen some development.

The train stopped in Eysins, Borex/Arnex and Crassier brfore Divonne. That photo is probably Borex/Arnex. Borex still has a chemin sur la gare, even though the gare is long gone.

Borex, correct. Ch. Sur-la-gare, hmmmmmm

Unfortunately the buidlings of Crassier were pretty much intact for decades, until the current development, which is modernising things.

can't remember the train line at all- which doesn't mean it wasn't there in the early 60s.

The old railway is now a walking/cycling trail from the Swiss border into Divonne. Pity they didn’t do something similar on the Swiss side.

Indeed- same in the UK. We lived near one of the railway lines closed by Beeching (sp?) in the 50s - that went all the way East to the sea at Skegness. Would now make a fabulous tram line to serve new suburbs in the East of the City- and then a cycle track, most on the flat, to the sea. Been built on piecemeal and sold to farms, etc.

Looking at the picture of Nyon, it has just struck me how similar it appears to Thun.

Nyon




Thun






Nyon castle is a clear ripoff of the real thing from Thun.

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