Travel Reference
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Buses and trolley buses service most destinations; the m2 Métro line (single trip/day pass
Sfr1.90/Sfr8.60) connects the lake (Ouchy) with the train station (Gare) and the Flon dis-
trict.
Detour:
Coppet
Midway between Nyon and Geneva, this tightly packed medieval village is a delight to meander through with its
lakeside warren of hotels and restaurants bowing at the feet of hilltop, 18th-century
Château de Coppet
(
www.coppet.ch
;
adult/child Sfr8/4; 2-6pm Easter-Oct)
. The rose-coloured stately home belonged to the
wily Jacques Necker, Louis XVI's banker and finance minister. The pile, sumptuously furnished in Louis XVI style,
became home to Necker's daughter, Madame de Staël, after she was exiled from Paris by Napoleon. In her literary
salons here she entertained the likes of Edward Gibbon and Lord Byron.
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