Lab outing

Today, for the first time this week, there was no events scheduled. No, I was wrong. In the evening, at 6:30 there was the annual lab outing. All the students, profs, and a few alumni of the lab were loaded into a bus which went to vivey - a mountain town between the lake (or lac) and the mountain about 30 minutes away from Lausanne. We trekked uphill for about 15 minutes to reach the restaurant at the top of a hill-top. And thereby proceeded to enjoy a five-course meal interceded by suitable gaps for you to digest the previous offering. This ended at 11 pm finally. Saw some amazing views of the lighted small town below, the lake, and the mountain further away. Also, got to meet and interact with Prof. Hubuax - a big name in our field. We decided to meet later on next week.
I had to walk back at midnight from the station (or Gare) where the bus dropped me, back to my hostel. that 30 minutes walk was actually pretty frentic, with drunk people all around throwing bottles, jeering, and generally having a drunken orgy with noone to stop them. This I later came to know was the party district of Lausanne, which happened to be on my way back.