In honor of the 4th of July, The Frau would like to encourage all expats living in Switzerland to go west. To the Emmental.
The Emmental is underrated. Why so, says The Frau?
The Emmental is underrated. Why so, says The Frau?
Because no one goes
there.
Gruyère. Zermatt. St.
Moritz. The Emmental might as well be in Canton Aargau for the amount of love
it gets from expats.
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| Hiking in Emmental |
Emmental has rolling
landscapes. It has people who say “Grüezi” in possibly the cutest accent in all
of CH. And it’s home to a town called Junkholz. What else could you want?
Don’t believe The
Frau? See for yourself. Do her hike (which is stroller friendly people, so
there’s no excuse even if you have a baby for not going to the Emmental).
Here’s the 3.5 km hike—which
ends at a huge cheese complex. (It's Tipp 7 in the PDF).
For those who need a translation, here it is: Take the train to
Burgdorf and the bus to Lueg. Start hiking in Lueg towards Junkholz. Pass
Schnabel. End at Affoltern i.E. at a cheese (and admittedly somewhat cheesy) factory. It’s not as extensive as the one in Gruyère, but it’s also not as
crowded. There’s a wonderful picnic area, a playground to keep kids (or adults
acting like kids) busy, a cheese shop, a restaurant serving everything with a
side of cheese, and possibly the oldest cheese making house in the world that
can still live up to Swiss cleanliness standards.
Anyone else like the
Emmental?
6 comments:
Emmental is also the origin of the Amish and the Mennonites: http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/archive/Pilgrimage_to_the_Emmental.html?cid=1994660
I'd love to do that hike! Maybe someday soon we can make our own pilgrimage back to Switzerland ;)
Only Swiss tourists say Grüezi in the Emmental. The locals say Grüessech - I'm one of them :-)
Bruno,
Ja, thank you for teaching me how to spell out Grüessech the proper way for that region. It's exactly what I was referring to!
The whole time I lived there, we never went to Emmental, although I have enjoyed the cheese very much. It has a low salt content, did you know, which makes it very healthy to eat.
There's a ton of other fantastic places to go "in the west". The whole "Berner Oberland" offers dozens of fantastic landscapes and hiking routes. Also the Lucerne area and its surroundings is very popular among tourists as well as Swiss natives.
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