We kept busy during our final two days in Switzerland; on
our list of Swiss things to learn about was cheese and chocolate.
Traveling about 40km through the Swiss countryside we made
our way to the Gruyere Cheese factory.
The tour was informative and interesting, we learnt all about how cheese
is made. It was amazing how much Corban
and Leo learnt and could talk about at dinner that night. Corban enjoyed nibbling on her cheese samples
while watching the cheese get made; Leo was a little more hesitant with tasting.
After learning about
Cheese we continued on to the original Swiss Nestle & Cailler chocolate factory. Once again we were in for a great tour
learning all about how the company got started and how chocolate is made, it
was a little more secretive that the cheese factory! Not only was the tour good, but we also
learnt how to taste chocolate and eat as much chocolate as we wanted. Allan and Corban tasted every type! Leo and I didn’t quite manage, but still had
a good go.
On our final day we had a more quite day and walked into
Montreux city along the lake. We took
pictures of the plant animals and statues.
Corban and Leo were introduced to Queen and Freddie Mercury. There is a 3m Freddie Mercury statue on the
lakefront in the city and Freddie Mercury’s recording studio is still there and
has been turned into a mini museum. They
danced while listening in all the different headsets, laughed at the costumes
and even got to mix some music in the actual recording studio. It was actually really interesting, there
were even lots of hand written lyrics.
Freddie brought the Mountain Studio after he was diagnosed with aids
because the people of Montreux didn’t harass or bother him and he could lead a
normal life there. Queen recorded their
last few albums here.
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