A Quick Visit from Mum and Dad - Part II

After we had had our fill of history and of walking, we went back to the car and headed home for a glass (or three) of wine. We had decided to go out for dinner at the nearby Terrasse in Bussigny, a Portugese-owned restaurant that Christelle and I had frequented in the past to sample their steak and chips and pizzas (although not during the same visit).

I had previously had the entrecote de boeuf with a peppercorn sauce – which was delicious – but had been advised by Pascal’s dad and sister to try the garlic sauce next time I went there. So, I ordered "entrecote de boeuf avec sauce à l’ail", and waited for my meal to turn up.

A Quick Visit from Mum and Dad - Part I

At the beginning of April, my mum decided she wanted to come over to Switzerland to visit Christelle and me in our new apartment. This was partly because she misses us and also because she wanted to have a nose around our new place. In any case, I was just happy that she would be coming over.

She promptly booked her flight to arrive in the evening in Geneva on Friday 14th May and leave again on the Sunday evening. It would be a brief trip, but any time we get to spend together is always fantastic – its funny how we tend to take the people in our lives for granted until we don’t get to see them very often.

It was the same for Chris with her family when we lived in England, and now that the shoe is on the other foot I can certainly understand why she was always so eager to book her flights back to Switzerland to visit the people she missed.