Day 4 - Geneva + Tbd

Day 4 - Geneva + Tbd #genevajordan2022

About to head out towards a chocolate factory but I'll be driving so no updates until then!

Made it! Chocolate time.

Here we are, of course it's nestled amidst mountains

Finally in bed it's time to POST.

Chocolate factory was neat, the first part was your of chocolate through the ages starting from the Aztecs through the development of it in Switzerland a bit cheesy but in a good way. At the end we got to see them make some small bars and then a toon of samples

This is the machine that spits out the little bars

Here's a short video of it wrapping them

And us being cute and silly tehe

In case anyone needed their balls roasted

On our way to destroy the one ring

The drive to the chocolate place was like 1.5 hours? Forgot to mention, then a short driver to a Gruyere cheese factory which was a bit underwhelming in price to value ratio (though we didn't go during a demonstration ), best part we're a vid showing the process and the cellar

Something I'd sorry of known but seeing how much food and water cows need per day to make milk and how much of that goes into cheese is a bit crazy

This is the holy cheese

Then another hour and a half to go through Lauterbrunnen to get to Stechelberg where we would the catch the cable car to the car-less town of Gimmelwald (and yes, we left the french part of Switzerland as the names may have clued you in)

This is going up the cable car (also bonus pic of the paragliders of which there are quite a few)

Arrival at Gimmelwald

And our hotel Pension Gimmelwald which has an attached "Honesty Shop" where they put prices on stuff and you just leave the money with no supervision, saw a few more later in the day.

View from the hotel terrace, plus some bonus views

We met one of the people working at the hotel, Guido, an argentinian who'd been country hopping but ended up staying here due to the vibes, we took a break and tried their Schwarz Mönch dark beer, usually not a fan of them but this was good, though with the view what wouldn't be

We then walked around a bit going up somewhat aimlessly taking in the sights which are quite memorable

I wonder what it's like to work or live in these

Cat on another honesty system store that was the next to the sign

These things are apparently to break up and prevent avalanches in the winter

Then we stopped for a bit when it started raining and we took cover under a roof's overhang before going back to make it for the dinner which was served from 7 to 8, breakfast is similarly from 8 to 9, no 7 to 11 breakfasts here, pic is inside the honesty shop after we got back

Dinner was ok but a bit non traditional where you might expect something more regional, was asian inspired 3 course menu with noodles and cucumber, then veggie curry and carrot cake, tomorrow I get the fondue for sure.

To wrap up the evening we played Cards Against Humanity since they had it at the inn: me, my wife, my father and his (neither of whom had played it before). Definitely not what i would have predicted given the nature of it but it was fun!

Now in bed and tomorrow we will do some hike(s)? That Guido recommended and who knows what else, sleeping one more night here, I was debating trying to paraglide for the first time but we'll see.