Hostellerie Saint-Georges
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Oh, for the love of chocolate...
Riley and I are dreaming of this day. We will stay at Hostellerie St. George. The highlight of Gruyeres will be to visit another castle, Castle Gruyeres. Second highlight... a tour of Maison Cailler. While on the tour, chocolate is conveniently stationed hither and thither for one's maximum chocolate tasting pleasure. We wonder how much chocolate …
Gruyère production
... 8211; it looked really heavy but he did use small electric crane to aid him along! After he put them in the mould, he put a weight on them to press the liquid out. We learned that his cheese is an "alpage" cheese which means that all of the milk comes from one herd of cows. If he used cheese from his neighbour's herd, it would be called “montagne” (mountain). We then watched a video on them making the cheese in the high alps during ...
Say Cheese
... village located on a hill a mile or so away. While sitting on the bus, I turn around and see that the cheese factory we want to visit is right behind us. So we hop off the bus and cross the road to the Gruyeres cheese factory. We discover that our Swiss pass is good for free entry so even better. Carol is entranced by the cheese making process. I think she stared at the rotating paddles stirring the milk, whey and other ingredients too long. The cheese man has hypnotized ...
Swiss-land
... our thank-yous and goodbyes to the Jomaines, but we would see them again in about a week.
We took off down the Valley, headed in the direction of Munich, Germany. We decided to stay at a hotel near Gruyeres, Switzerland. There we would see one of the more famous castles in all of Europe. After a 4-5 hour drive, through which I navigated (superbly I might add) we reached Gruyeres and its castle. ...
Guyères
The journey to Guyères took approximately 4 hours and involved 4 different trains; luckily this time the Swiss trains ran on time and all the connections were seamless. Guyères was a lovely surprise, set on top of a hill; with cobbled streets and lovely main square.
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