Restaurant de l'Université de Lausanne

Tuesday August 23

We were in Lausanne for a conference "From Ancient Manuscripts to the Digital Era," where Holt had been asked to speak on the ancient part (he was for it).  The organizers had set it up beautifully, everyone was kind about keeping to languages that others knew, and it didn't hurt that the campus, though architecturally furnished with the usual 60s brutalist horrors, featured green spaces mown by the occasional sheep, and looked out over Lake Geneva towards the mountains. 

The view was especially good from the University Restaurant terrace, where they took us to dinner the first night of the conference.  We started with Greek salad, though that was not one of the official languages of the conference, and white and rosé table wines.  
The set meal of pork cutlets, flageolets, and roast potatoes was fresh-made and suited the occasion and setting perfectly.  And then we took the Metro with our French and German speaking new friends, back to our airless hotel room.