C'est la vie! : La Suisse

Hello again!

Hope you are all enjoying my blog so far. I’m going to try my best to blog every week so you can all know my whereabouts. Last weekend I left Lyon and travelled to Switzerland for the weekend. Ahh the beauty of living in Europe… within 2 hours you can hop on a train and be in a new country. Its magnifique! Our trip to Switzerland was very spontaneous. We didn’t know much about what to visit aside from its famous chocolatieres and fromageries but it turned out to be our most exciting trip yet. The saying really is true… “sometimes the best things in life are unplanned”. We decided to leave Saturday morning at 6:45 a.m. As newbie travelers, we made the mistake of assuming we would know our way around the train station and where to pick up our tickets. We also made the mistake of stopping for a croissant and café au lait on the way. So yes.. we ended up missing our 6:45 am train to Geneva. Luckily there was another train at 8:30 am … so we sat and ate another croissant while anxiously awaiting our train. Geneva was very pretty… it was a small city- quaint, old and antique. Although it was freezing cold and rainy, we managed to visit all of Geneva’s landmarks, stop for lunch at a small café where we had our first Croque Monsieur and visit a few chocolate shops. On Sunday, we took the train and decided to visit Gruyere. This was my favorite place yet. It was just breathtaking- hard to put in words but it was the crème of cottage living. We visited the gruyere cheese factory and got to watch the whole gruyere cheese-making process, visit the cheese caves, sample some of Gruyeres finest and even say hello to some friendly cows while strolling through the town. Then we trekked all the way up a hill to visit Gruyeres famous Chateau and town. After a long hard walk we stopped and treated ourselves to fondue avec pain et pomme de terre! All in all, Switzerland was perfect. Heavy on our wallets and tummies, but worth every penny and calorie !

Bissous bissous
-C