Montreux Jazz Festival

Today morning got up early, as I had decided to bike to Montreux for the
Montreux Jazz Festival going on now. It happens for 2 weeks every summer. Well, one must be wondering -- are there festivals going on in Europe every day? Actually, for more than 6 months in Europe it snows and is too cold. Only for 3/4 for months from June to September is the weather fantastic and therefore people are always outdoors. hence, they have a variety of festivals.
But, actually Montreux jazz festival is a very famous event, now in it's 38th year. Not just for musicians, but also for people who come from around the continent to attend it.
I went with a friend from Singapore, Ling. Sp, who was also supposed to go fell sick and hence could not. The biking trail was on the side of the road, many times on the road itself without any separate biking lane. But, it is very safe to bike here as there are many bikers on the road, and cars are careful of them. The route was fantastic, with the Lac geneva on one side, and mountains on the other. Lots of white wine plants were on the mountain side using terrace farming - this region is famous for it's white wine. After almost 2 hours of sometimes pretty tiring cycling, reached Montreux. There at 11 am, the city was just beginning to get up, as the festival goes on till 5 am every morning. We went around the hordes of stalls, selling various curios and worldwide food.
This weekend was Brazil weekend, and everywhere the colours were yellow and green, dancing to the tune of samba and bahia. Got the last ticket to a Samba boat which is like a music boat. The Boat had various samba bands playing throughout, and lots of people dancing, which it went around Lac Geneve. Across lac geneve, on the other side is france, and saw it from very close.
It was nonstop music - and there were so many brazilians and latinos who had come all over to attend this festival weekend. These latinos are always dancing, they must feel suffocated at the formalism of Europe, I thought. Came back from the ship at 6:30 pm, and was greeted by rain. Went into some indoor jazz showings, which were free. Vocal jazz is pretty different, which various sounds, and some words which I din't understand. The saxophone and other instrument were very nice. Then took the 8:40 train for the 20 minute journey back to Lausanne. Could also put up the bike into a bike rack in the train. Was very tired, hence was glad that I was not biking back. Then had kebab at the Lausanne station and came back home. Immediately fell asleep.