We apologize that there has not been a recent post, but it’s been a crazy few weeks. Since our last post we’ve graduated from college, packed and unpacked four years of college into countless boxes and flown across the world! We are spending the next six weeks in Europe, two of which will be spent through Switzerland, France and Italy and four of which will be spent farming on two different farms. While we won’t be cooking much during this time, we will be eating amazing food and seeing amazing sites. We decided to share our travels with you and hope you will follow our adventures through a new and exciting world of food.
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| Sunrise from the airplane. |
Traveling around Europe can get expensive, especially eating out every meal, and as recent graduates we do not have a huge budget. However, we know that good food does not necessarily have to be expensive, especially when you get creative. After an overnight flight we arrived in Zug, Switzerland exhausted and hungry. As we wandered around the quaint town we found a grocery store and put together a delicious lunch. Fresh bread is readily available, as is inexpensive local cheeses and vegetables. We grabbed some nice baguettes, half-round of cheese, apples, tomatoes and carrots, and headed for a park on a lake. Luckily a friend advised us to pack a knife and with that we were all set for a great lunch. Between the view, the food, and the company, we certainly didn’t miss the restaurant setting and enjoyed a lovely lunch. Lunch was so good that we had a similar picnic for dinner and we’re sure this will become a routine during our travels.
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| The old part of town in Zug, Switzerland. |
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| Our picnic lunch in Zug. |
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| Our lunch view. |
After Zug, we traveled to Luasanne, Switzerland. Lausanne is on Lake Geneva (right across from Evian, France) and about a 30-minute train ride from Geneva. Lausanne is a pretty small city with great walks along the waterfront and the old part of the city higher up, with great views of the mountains and lake. We spent Friday exploring Lausanne and Saturday in Geneva.
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| The Jet d'Eau in Geneva, Switzerland. |
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| The harbor in Geneva. |
In Geneva we stumbled on a market and found ourselves a nice picnic consisting of local blue cheese, tomatoes and whole grain bread. Another spectacular view made this a lunch not to forget. By evening we were back in Lausanne, which happened to be hosting a Thai festival that we had walked through the day before. While there was only one vegetarian option, Pad Thai Pak, we gave it a try and were quite pleased. It came with some great chili sauces and fresh lemons which made the dish. It was a very interesting environment to have dinner in with a mixture of Swiss culture, French language and Thai cooking (there was even a Lady Gaga impersonator). After dinner we walked along the water front and couldn’t resist the smells coming from of Lausanne’s oldest creperies, Creperie D’Ouchy. We got one of the classic combinations, butter and sugar. Overall, Switzerland was a great country to visit and we are looking forward to our next stop, two weeks on a French farm.
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| Trying cheeses at the Geneva market. |
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| Our lunch in Geneva. |
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| Pad Thai being prepared at the Thai festival in Lausanne. |
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| Pad Thai Pak |
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| Crepe with butter and sugar from Creperie D'Ouchy. |
