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Satigny

There's this beautiful chapel near my brother's place that I always visit when I am here, it is architecturally captivating. 

So one morning, we went for a walk and spent a few minutes at the 
St. Marie chapel...
This is one of the prettiest chapels I've seen... natural light through openings in the roof fall on the bible and 
and on this altar...
The exterior of the chapel...
A pretty ornate cross at the entrance...
Afterwards, we decided to explore the wine growing region of Geneva, Satigny. So we hopped on a train and crossed beautiful vineyards and rolling hills...
It was an extremely hot day, so finding cold potable water like this was pretty amazing.
A vine covered train station...
Pretty little church in Satigny
The interior 
The countryside... on a warm sunny day.
Took the bus back to the city and stopped at this cafe, Paradiso
 for cold beer...
Later at home made these pastries for dinner....
A vegetarian one and a chicken one
 I love making these whenever I am here, they remind me of my childhood and they are ridiculously easy to prepare.

Comments

Diane said…
What a stunning little chapel. Love all these photos but I am so impressed with your home made pasties they look so exotic. How about a recipe :-)
Take care Diane
Karen Xavier said…
Hi Diane, they are very easy to make... I did put up a recipe a few years back. Thank you for dropping by :)

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