Tourist pics for a change: Saint-Prex

[TT]

Talk about a change.. in the past year I took thousands of pics, and 99% of them were car related :shock:

The other day I was out with no hunting intentions, I still found a couple of cars, but then on the highway there was a pretty big accident with some huge wait in perpective. So I gave up and instead of wasting my afternoon moving along at 1 km/h on the highway, I took the first exit to just roam around a little and let things settle down. I choosed a little village not too far from here, a village where some days ago I shoot a Diablo 6.0 and an Affolter Diablo GTR Evo just for your info ;). Obviously my idea was to hunt down some more cars maybe. I saw the 6.0 again, but it was becoming too dark already, and after 1 hour of waiting near the main road I only got an SL600, so I gave up and took a walk into the old village, wich is just a gem! it's a little medieval village, I couldn't find many historic infos about it, but for sure it was already there during the XIII century. That's the case for most villages around here actually, but not all of them are so well preserved IMO.
Only downside: cars are allowed inside, and it's totally wrong since the roads are still as wide as they were some centuries ago.. definitely not created for today's cars...
Anyway, it is a marvellous place. So calm, so tiny and on the lake! Makes for a perfect realxing place expecially since my option was to wait in line on the highway for hours :roll:

Here are some pics, sadly as you can see, it was not only late in the afternoon, but the sun wasn't there :bah: luckily Photoshop helped in adding some colors, or else it would have been a grey festival

this is the main gate to access the village, I guess back then it was the "only" way.
http://img249.echo.cx/img249/9697/saintprex006ys.th.jpg (http://img249.echo.cx/my.php?image=saintprex006ys.jpg)

Right beside it, the Tourist Board office or whatever it is called the place where tourists can get informations. The same building was, during XIII and XIV century, the forge of the community.
http://img255.echo.cx/img255/3796/saintprex129au.th.jpg (http://img255.echo.cx/my.php?image=saintprex129au.jpg)

Inside the village there are a couple of tiny squares like this one
http://img255.echo.cx/img255/2522/saintprex036sk.th.jpg (http://img255.echo.cx/my.php?image=saintprex036sk.jpg)

Now for some random pics:
http://img255.echo.cx/img255/9444/saintprex016fk.th.jpg (http://img255.echo.cx/my.php?image=saintprex016fk.jpg) http://img260.echo.cx/img260/8954/saintprex029rc.th.jpg (http://img260.echo.cx/my.php?image=saintprex029rc.jpg) http://img260.echo.cx/img260/2876/saintprex042um.th.jpg (http://img260.echo.cx/my.php?image=saintprex042um.jpg) http://img260.echo.cx/img260/6760/saintprex051fi.th.jpg (http://img260.echo.cx/my.php?image=saintprex051fi.jpg)
http://img260.echo.cx/img260/214/saintprex061rm.th.jpg (http://img260.echo.cx/my.php?image=saintprex061rm.jpg) http://img260.echo.cx/img260/2553/saintprex070kx.th.jpg (http://img260.echo.cx/my.php?image=saintprex070kx.jpg) http://img260.echo.cx/img260/8251/saintprex088xa.th.jpg (http://img260.echo.cx/my.php?image=saintprex088xa.jpg) http://img260.echo.cx/img260/9875/saintprex096hu.th.jpg (http://img260.echo.cx/my.php?image=saintprex096hu.jpg)
http://img260.echo.cx/img260/9961/saintprex101vh.th.jpg (http://img260.echo.cx/my.php?image=saintprex101vh.jpg) http://img260.echo.cx/img260/5138/saintprex111xv.th.jpg (http://img260.echo.cx/my.php?image=saintprex111xv.jpg)

And the local Diablos ;)
http://img249.echo.cx/img249/2516/lamborghinidiablo6570aw.th.jpg (http://img249.echo.cx/my.php?image=lamborghinidiablo6570aw.jpg)

[stmoritzer]

"Indeed, if you take a break and stop (= leave the highway), look around and one can see amazing things" philosopic phrase, but true in our fast world


nice pictures, also the detail ones
http://img260.exs.cx/img260/9961/saintprex101vh.th.jpg (http://img260.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img260&image=saintprex101vh.jpg)

St.Prex is next to the town Beaufort, isn't it ?

[TT]

I am ashamed to say I have no idea where Beaufort is LOL. I will look for it, but Saint-prex is basically after Morges (gioing toward Geneva, on the lake)

[stmoritzer]

:lol: :wink:
No need to be ashamed,... after having seen the filename of your pics, I had a look in TwixRoute to find St.Prex on the map.... Beaufort is between the highway and St.Prex

http://img251.echo.cx/img251/1702/map12nh.jpg

[dingo]

I like these type of pics (not as much as cars though), its interesting to see different places from around the world :wink: It looks pretty quiet/deserted but it sure has a charm about it :D
A shame that the Lambo's were not at the petrol station this time, but I'm sure you will return to get petrol another time and they (or others) will be there :wink:

[komotar]

I love it!

Tourist pics are refreshing!

Some great shots you got! The detail are realy amazing!

Thx! 8)

[TT]

Great pics TT, thanks!!! It's a lovely village... When I've been to Switzerland... I usually have visited Gruyere, which is also a medieval village exactly as it was five centuries ago. This one looks pretty good too... so next time I go over there... I'll have a look!

Oh yes, I went there several times already. it's even better, but too many tourists there since it is a well know place ;) still worth a look!

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A shame that the Lambo's were not at the petrol station this time, but I'm sure you will return to get petrol another time and they (or others) will be there :wink:

I never said there were no Lambos at the petrol station ;)
The Diablo 6.0 was there, but since there was lot of traffic and since I saw it two days before I didn't stop ;)

For the others, just a teaser :P
http://img249.echo.cx/img249/2516/lamborghinidiablo6570aw.th.jpg (http://img249.echo.cx/my.php?image=lamborghinidiablo6570aw.jpg)

[stradale]

Beautiful shots, TT. What a picturesque village that is! I don't mind it one bit that you show us pics of something other than cars now and then. I'm just as jealous at the cars you see as at the surroundings anyway. :wink:

[mindgam3]

Great pics TT - I guess snapping things other than cars will help broaden your photography skills; they all look very sharp, nice job ;)

[ARMAN]

Finally some change! :P Not just cars and cars and cars and ... more cars :mrgreen: Great pics TT, very nice shots :wink:

[TT]

:drool: :drool: :drool:
We'll have a wait some month for the upload... isn't it??? :(

Well, I would like to be able to tell you they will be up tomorrow, but as "always", some hundread of pics will come before them :roll:

Not that there won't be some nice cars, Diablo included, in the pics coming before them ;)

[sameerrao]

Switzerland is beautiful, my friend. Pls take more pics of the scenery around there :)

Your pics of Lake Geneva (taken some months ago) are still among my faves

[Wutputt]

Some great scenery pics of that little village. As with the cars I like the pics that show some more detail ;)

Nice Lambo combo shot. I just can't wait for the whole series of pics you shot of the two yellow monsters

[TT]

Moved this topic here even if I live 15 min away, but it's better here than in the new "travels" section for sure!

For the ones that posted topics about their towns, can you please see if you can find the url to the topic and PM it to me so I can move them here? (lazyness and lack of time prevent me to do the search myself ;))

[Veedub]

During my studies, I found a summer job in Champex Lac, near Martigny, and spent 3 months there. I just loved it, the landscape is wonderful. :)

And the roads are awesome too. :P