Blog posts about vaud at Permanent Tourist

Searching for viewpoints, poring over maps, dodging power lines, and coming home with classic landscape images.

Better lighting conditions can make a good landscape photograph great. Being in the right place at the right time is a skill which you can learn.

Visiting lake shore villages in the French-speaking Romandie region of Switzerland feels like a little foreign holiday.

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Locals and photographers alike gather on the hill near Lausanne’s cathedral to watch – and photograph – the summer sunsets. The northern shore of Lac Léman is one of the best places in the country from which to photograph the sunset.

Léman is the original (some would say “correct”) name for what most of the rest of the world knows as Lake Geneva. It’s one of the most varying beautiful and vibrant regions of Switzerland, with a seemingly endless range of castles, vineyards, lakes and mountains. The local tourism organizations certainly had a lot to work […]

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Visiting the ridiculously picturesque castle and vineyards at Aigle, in the Rhone valley.

Almost perfect reflections in the still, expansive waters of Lake Neuchâtel, on the borders of cantons Vaud, Bern and Neuchâtel.

Almost perfect reflections in the still water of La Sauge, as it drains into the expansive waters of Lake Neuchâtel, on the borders of cantons Vaud, Bern and Neuchâtel.

A touching and unusual alternative to the wedding book; guests at a German-Swiss wedding present the couple with flowers and individual written notes of goodwill.