Day 18 - Vucherens to Lausanne 22 Kilometers

A surprisingly good breakfast with Moka pot coffee propelled us for the morning trek. We wanted to get an early start to beat the heat. Again. We were blessed with far more wooded and shady paths than we thought we would have and used it to our advantage. We logged quite a few kilometers before it started getting really warm. We got close to our destination city but our markings ran out. A gentleman on the opposite side of the road recognized our confusion and crossed to help us out. He pointed us in the right direction, albeit not on the path but probably saved us quite a few steps. We were thankful. We ultimately made it to the cathedral in Lausanne which had a special spot for the pilgrims to rest and hangout. Being after one in the afternoon, we were hungry so we found a spot for a simple meal and were off to look for our accommodations. Big cities are tough to manage and our best chance is to find a tourism office and ask. We scored, and within minutes we were at our hostel and it is pretty nice. The hostel has bus and metro privileges which is really nice as the town is built on a hill that slopes to Lake Geneva. We used the metro to go to the Olympic Museum. It is very impressive and we enjoyed it thoroughly. Then we took the metro back up the hill to see the St. Francis church. We didn't feel like eating out so we bought a few things and had dinner on the balcony of our room looking out to the French Alps.