Dwight Peck's personal website
Lake
steamers and other boats on Lake Geneva (lac Léman)
A collection of occasional photos of the wonderful boats on Lake Geneva
La
Suisse
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The
Belle Epoque steamer La Suisse leaving Evian docks,
26 June 2005 -- built in 1910 and, at 78 meters long, nearly the biggest of the
Lake Geneva Belle Epoque fleet. It's 16 meters across at its widest point.
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La
Suisse has got to be
one of the most beautiful ships ever built. It was last renovated in 1971 and
seems to be okay for a while. The
transcendentally beautiful fleet of Lake Geneva "Belle Epoque" steamers
are presently being renovated and fundraising, always difficult, is continuing.
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La
Suisse, pulling out of Rolle on the noontime run, August 2006
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La
Suisse, gliding between Rolle shore and the Ile de la Harpe.
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La
Suisse bound for elsewhere, August 2006
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La Suisse may be the loveliest boat ever built.
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La
Suisse, scootching
its formidable momentum in towards the dock at Rolle, 6 August 2007
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La
Suisse picking up the luncheon crowd in Rolle. Talk about pleasant symmetries!
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La
Suisse parading before my lunch bench on the lakeside at Rolle,
6 August 2007, with the Ile de la Harpe behind. Two fabulous jambon/fromage sandwiches
from our favorite patisserie on the Grand Rue, the International Herald Tribune,
and a beautiful steamship passing right in front of us. It's hard to absorb so
much wonderfulness. Note the Amis des Bateaux à Vapeur du Léman
booster-banner (Friends of the Lake Geneva steamships).
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La
Suisse heads out for the wider lunchtime world.
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The
ducks are splendidly unperturbed.
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See
you tomorrow, same place, precisely the same time.
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Photos of a cruise on board La Suisse in 2012
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La Suisse passing the Château de Chillon, October 2012
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All rights reserved, all wrongs avenged. Posted 31 October 2007, last modified 28 November 2012.
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