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From: Akiko Nakata
 
 
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My Website http://www10.plala.or.jp/transparentt/ has some photos of the Montreux Nabokov sights.  I am sorry most of the pages (the web version of the notes to our translation of TRANSPARENT THINGS) are in Japanese, but the photos might interest some of you who have not visited/are going to visit Montreux.  The photos are on http://www10.plala.or.jp/transparentt/toumei1.html. 
 
When I went to the cemetery in 1998, I bought a pot of violets (pansies?) and a candle from a lady of the house across the road.  The house did not look like a flower shop or any shop, but they sold such things.  I asked a man who seemed to be in charge of the cemetery (the gardener?) where I could get some flowers, but he did not understand English (at least my English), and then he made sense of the question in poor French and showed me the place.   
It took me 25 minutes to walk from the cemetery to the Montreux Palace.  Unless you are a foot racer or an expert hiker like Prof. Boyd, or there is a nearer way I did not know, you will find it practically impossible to walk from the Montreux station to the cemetery in 15 minutes.     
 
Does anyone know how popular apricot juice is around Montreux?   
 
Best wishes,
Akiko Nakata