joyeux noel. joyeux noel. merry christmas. how can you have a merry christmas without chocolate in switzerland? merci, monsieur. joyeux noel. >> merci. >> christmas is a festival of lights, a time to dispel all of the dark, so one of the best times to be at the christmas markets of switzerland is at night, when you can see all the lights of christmas. while montreux, home of the famous jazz festival, is hip and lively, lausanne, home of the international olympic committee, is noted for its ties to history and tradition. although people have lived alongside the lake in what we now call lausanne since the stone-age times, the old town has really been around since the 6th century. it's where the historic landmarks of lausanne are located, such as the cathedral and the town hall, the bishop's palace. it's also where the christmas market of lausanne is located, in the place st.-francoise, alongside the church. well, if you come to the christmas market in switzerland, one of the things you have to share with people

. >> they say happy christmas but in quebec where i'm from, they say joyeux noel. >> it has come to meanrelation to christmas. the phrase merry christmas and a happy knew year is thought to have first and in a letter written by an english admiral in 1699. >> you along time. >> the phrase and in the first ever christmas card, the first ever christmas card produced in england in 1843 said merry christmas and happy new year. >> so it is like 150 years. >> it took 1 other years to catch on. someone writes it in a letter, it is very odd for something to catch o in the same year, 1843, the phrase merry christmas figured prominently in charles dickens' a christmas carol. you remember, somebody said miry christmas and he says i wish everyone who said that would be boiled in their own pudding and after he is a changed man, he is saying merry christmas to everybody. that story popularized that term. now, you wonder, well, charles dickens, he is in england. why didn't it catch on in england? because in england, the word merry also means tipsy or drunk. and the thinking is that has prevented it from