Wishing everyone happiness, good health, fruitful projects, exciting adventures… and most of all, sweetness in every way !
I hope it was a festive, delicious and joyous Christmas…
Friday, December 30th, 2011
I love medieval villages. (Murten/Morat, Gruyères, Stein am Rhein and Chur to name a few.) The more crooked the structures, the more mismatched the bricks and stones and wooden beams, the more I’m fascinated. Whether in Switzerland, France, Italy or Portugal, I roam up and down the roughly cobbled streets of these labyrinthine villages, ooh-ing and ah-ing at the imposing doors and the seemingly indestructible ironwork. I could listen for hours to my husband (or his encyclopedic father) share historical tidbits, while I gaze up at the years engraved into the buildings going back well beyond the 15th century. All I can say is, thank goodness for digital film. Every blink of the eye is a photo opportunity.
On my recent ‘Sweet Geneva’ tours, there was certainly a recurring theme. The window displays of every chocolate shop in town were taken over by soup cauldrons made of chocolate ! Filled with marzipan vegetables and emblazoned with Geneva’s red and yellow coat of arms, you simply couldn’t miss it. Pots made out of chocolate… in Geneva… that can mean only one thing: la Fête de l’Escalade, bien sûr !
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