"NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY ON THE FIFTH AVENUE" AT BEAU RIVAGE PALACE IN LAUSANNE.

I love Holiday getaways, and every year, we choose a new destination where to wait for the new year to come. For 2019, it was the turn of Lake Geneva. Long tapestries, chandeliers, frescoes, glittering Christmas decorations and a stately, grandiose allure welcomed us at Beau Rivage Palace Hotel in Lausanne, when we arrived. The years have passed but this wonderful Belle époque building overlooking Lake Geneva and set in one of the most elegant areas of the city still retains every bit of its magnificence and panache and you almost think you see some of its former famous guests such as Charlie Chaplin or Coco Chanel strolling about the common areas in the park, or sitting at either the restaurant or the brasserie... 
The New Year's Eve dinner-party in the Sandoz ball room was a magnificent event set in a frosted/bluish décor, which took your mind to a Winter night-out in New York, with guests raising glasses of champagne and enjoying the music soundtrack of a famous classic repertoire inspired by Broadway shows, then darting about the corridors in black-tie formal dress code. 

The occasion for me to wear black lace, sparkling jewels and a black patent leather Chanel clutch... 

And now that we are back home and work, the impression of the whole sojourn is still with us, of our calm, cozy room, the relaxing, magic atmosphere of the lounge areas, the spa and the park, like pulled straight out of a fairytale...