Gruyeres Travel Blogs

I was out driving one day when I visiting my brother and I saw a sign to Gruyeres and I thought "well let's go there" I instantly linked the city to a cheese and a good one! Gruyers is the capital of the district of Gruyére in the canton of Fribourg. Gruyères …

La Maison du Gruyère very interesting exhibition, actually cow Cerise introduces you to the secrets of the cheese making :)Restaurant de la Fromagerie is serving mouth watering Fondue...Medieval Castle built in the 13th Century has a definite charm, lovely gardens and various exhibitions.HR Gige…

After our whirlwind tour of Paris (see kalins entry) during which I was DENIED a royale with cheese (sold out) on the Champs Elysses, we booked it out of our teensy little hotel room to the train and spent nearly the whole day getting to Le Pàquier, near Gruyères in Switzerland.  The B&B…

Monday, 10/19/09My folks showed up from their panoramic train trip around Switzerland about 5 days after I arrived in Lausanne. They had some trouble with the topography of the city - there are loads and loads of stairs and ramps on all the steep hills, and that would wear them out, so I wasn't ab…

Swiss Alps

April 2006 - London, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, France and back to London for my 18th :)

Here is my 2006 trip in Europe.

We met as agreed at 10:00, skipped breakfast, and headed towards Switzerland. I had chosen Gruyères as a destination & Karl readily agreed. Gruyères is an old walled city set on a hilltop & it's fantastic. Unfortunately, it's a popular tourist spot and, this being Sunday, it was a bit cro…

Treinrondereizen door Zwitserland.