Easter travels

Last Saturday Ash flew over to Basel where I met him and we spent a few days exploring. The airport is actually in France, but it only takes a ten minute bus journey to cross back over the border into Switzerland. Whilst there we paid a visit to the Jean Tinguely museum, where I spent a good twenty minutes looking at one piece in particular ‘Lola T. 180 - Mémorial pour Joakim B.’ which was made in dedication to his Formula 1 racing friend who was killed in a race. The piece is made from two cars and has been made to take the form of a winged altar, complete with a cow’s skull in the middle. It was simultaneously haunting and beautiful. What made this place unique was that all the pieces displayed in the museum were able to move, each piece controlled by a mechanism which the public were allowed to switch on, and watch. 

We also visited the Kunstmuseum which was divided into three separate building across the city, one of which was home to a few works by Andy Warhol. All the exhibitions forbade the use of photography but we managed to find a little loophole in the corridor of one; there was a security camera and screen up on the wall,  and funnily through the flicking of different cameras in the building you could potentially view every art piece in there without going to find it in person! Of course we did though…

The following days consisted of going to the zoo and general exploring, then back to Sierre for the rest of the week. On the Friday we took a day trip to Montreux, where a comic-con event was being held, and I attended a talk with an actor from the tv show House of Cards! On the Saturday Ash left and then my friend Danielle came to visit from the UK! My last visitor, just in time for the Easter holiday. I went to meet her in Geneva, and we spent the majority of the week sunbathing and exploring. I took her up to Crêt du Midi, where Ash and I had visited over christmas, and then we took a little detour to Sion on the train where we hiked up to the Tourbillon castle.