This weekend we went for a trip to see the new cars that are coming out / are on the market. But that's not all, after a tight and very hard program made by Marie and Peter we faced some severe climbs up the mountain, had some magnificent views (at the Mont Blanc for instance), saw what can be done with cheese (cheese fondue and raclette (the real way!), drank some Swiss wine, ate chocolate, did a mountain climb by car, visited the local pub, went down to the local brewery, went out eating twice, that all in 2 days ...
It took al place in the area of Sainte Croix.
You can see above the map drawn and below the same map but from satellite. We stayed in Les Rasses, that's about 1200 meters above sea level.
Day I
Cheese fondue we ate in the mountains. After a steep climb of over 250 meters *(thx for the correction Peter ;-) ) we arrived at this cabin. The place is called La Casba and especially open for us at this occasion ... :-) Started of with some kirsh what came back during the cheese fondue. Dip the bread in the alcohol, dip it in the cheese and that's it ... very mighty, very good. Finished with a homemade kind of vanilla flan, no small pieces, just divided the whole thing in 4 pieces ... :-)
This was after the visit to the local wine reseller and the beer brewer. A small local brewer that showed his workplace and let us taste all of his beers. So within 45 minutes we were already 5 beers further ...
Day II
The car show ... what can I say, the pictures speak for themselves (1 blog above!)
Ended with diner, raclette, not on the Dutch way but the real Swiss way. It's as cosy as gourmet, it has a perfect taste (they have up to 20 different kinds of cheese). So you can talk, eat and listen to music in the same time ... there might be an import of cheese and 'Raclette Machines' pretty soon ...
Let the cheese melt under the 'raclette machine' than scrape the melted part on your plate, do it again and again ... :-)
Day III
After breakfast home sweet home ...
Thanks for a lovely weekend (especially the hosts Marie & Peter), it was a full program and loved every minute of it ... waiting on permission to publish a photo of Marie ... :-)
It took al place in the area of Sainte Croix.
You can see above the map drawn and below the same map but from satellite. We stayed in Les Rasses, that's about 1200 meters above sea level.
Day I
Cheese fondue we ate in the mountains. After a steep climb of over 250 meters *(thx for the correction Peter ;-) ) we arrived at this cabin. The place is called La Casba and especially open for us at this occasion ... :-) Started of with some kirsh what came back during the cheese fondue. Dip the bread in the alcohol, dip it in the cheese and that's it ... very mighty, very good. Finished with a homemade kind of vanilla flan, no small pieces, just divided the whole thing in 4 pieces ... :-)
This was after the visit to the local wine reseller and the beer brewer. A small local brewer that showed his workplace and let us taste all of his beers. So within 45 minutes we were already 5 beers further ...
Day II
The car show ... what can I say, the pictures speak for themselves (1 blog above!)
Ended with diner, raclette, not on the Dutch way but the real Swiss way. It's as cosy as gourmet, it has a perfect taste (they have up to 20 different kinds of cheese). So you can talk, eat and listen to music in the same time ... there might be an import of cheese and 'Raclette Machines' pretty soon ...
Let the cheese melt under the 'raclette machine' than scrape the melted part on your plate, do it again and again ... :-)Day III
After breakfast home sweet home ...
Thanks for a lovely weekend (especially the hosts Marie & Peter), it was a full program and loved every minute of it ... waiting on permission to publish a photo of Marie ... :-)
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