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Ed Davison took some super photos while on tour and has kindly offered access to them. If you are linked to him via FaceBook you will be able to view them here:
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BlogEd
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Lonely horn
One lonely horn left in the car park at Perins after the tour was over......
Anybody wish to claim?
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A lovely time at Coppet. Great to have a concert there as part of the town's National Swiss Day festivities.
Lovely, friendly people who made us feel very special and appreciated, lots of requests to return to Coppet in the near future. Great concert in a very picturesque lakeside setting.
International Olympic Museum, Lausanne - this was very good indeed. A superb way to make a museum interesting and engaging.
Our final concert is now underway in Casino Montbenon, Lausanne - home of the city's professional orchestra and chamber groups. Lovely to see a good-sized audience has turned up - things going very well indeed.
J
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Happy Birthday Kate Potter
London 2012
Jon at Coppet
Olympic Museum
London 2012 medals
Olympic World Record
It's in the pad!
Meeting up outside the Olympic Museum
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Coppet ferry 1
Head for the lake!
Coppet ferry 2
Coppet ferry 3
Coppet from the beach
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Just a quick reminder of what is planned for today and tomorrow (local time):
Today
11am-12pm Concert at Coppet Harbour
3pm-4.30pm Visit to Olympic Museum in Lausanne
7pm-8pm Concert at Salle Paderewski
Tomorrow
10.45 Visit to Les Gorges du Fier
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HCTB had a brilliant day on the glacier - be it the music, food, scenery (awesome), cable cars, toboggan etc. the weather was definitely in our favour. In the process of making the long journey back to the hotel at the mo - all the longer due to major traffic hold ups around Montreux. We're now making good progress & the hotel are on alert to provide a later than planned meal for us.
J
Here is what this man wrote to us:
Bonsoir victoria,Chloé,
grand merci pour ce concert donné ce soir de grande qualité.
Notre public et moi même avons grandement apprécié.
A très bientôt.
Pierre
As translated by BlogEd:
Good evening Victoria, Chloe
A big thank you for the high calibre concert given this evening.
Our public and I myself greatly appreciated it.
We hope to see you soon
Pierre
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A journey with a challenge! Near vertical coach trip followed by 2 incredibly spectacular cable car trips and we are finally here. HCYBs have played in some amazing locations but this one tops them all!
Concert in progress followed by lunch and then some downtime for some white knuckle pursuits.
J
Cable car squash..
Getting there ...
Half way up ... change cable cars..
The top
Chloe - our wonderful tour rep
Getting picked up to go back down
After the concert
Toboggan run
Clouds coming in
Toboggan time
Raclette
Glacier Concert
Go Jon!
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Beautiful Bernex!!!
After a journey across the mountains & passes we have arrived. The scenery is utterly spectacular - amazing alpine views, if only it can be seen...,, wet (very) misty and cloudy... Nothing on view.
Tonight's concert has been moved indoors to a superb and very large hall. A large crowd is gathering which is nice to see.
Here we go!
Go Wilf - go!
Go Joe!
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After a fascinating morning at CERN (Centre for European Nuclear Research) - Large Hadron Collider and all that, we moved on to Yvoire for our first tour concert. Great setting, great audience. After 3 pieces the rain set in and so we moved to the adjacent medieval town hall - taking the audience with us.
Great concert!
Now some downtime in Yvoire before moving on to Evian for a meal & then Bernex for our evening concert. Hope the weather improves as the scenery is spectacular if only it can be seen!
J
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Morning spent in a very pretty but very wet Annecy. Chloe, our excellent
tour rep managed to arranged to get us up to our hotel earlier to get us out of the rain.
Afternoon rehearsal followed by evening meal followed by a Cathi-led quiz / charades / non instrumental musical challenges. Hopefully more sleep than last night to look forward to. A busy day with a better weather forecast awaits tomorrow.
J
