Europe Day 11

We never knew we had a tour guide in the family until today. Stephen was our personal tour guide for Geneva today, showing us all the sites and giving us the detailed information only a tour guide would know. We took a quick tour of the town and saw places like the first protestant cathedral in the world where John Calvin (the man who made the reformation popular) used to preach in the 1500’s and an apartment where two men in the 1800’s lived while they were trying to sell this new drink they created that was fizzy. The drink didn’t go over very well in Geneva, so they moved to Great Britain to try and sell it there and it turns out the last name of one of the men was Schweppes. For Dinner tonight Sarah and Stephen made a traditional Swiss dinner called Rocklette, named after the type of cheese used as the main dish. The dinner consists of the Rocklette cheese, potatoes, and a heater that heats from the top. A piece of cheese is placed in a small pan (about 3″ in diameter) and placed under the heater until the cheese is melted. Then the cheese is scraped out of the pan and onto the potatoes. It was very good. One last bit of knowledge you may all like to know is that cheese is very cheap there.! 2 pounds of Gruyeres cheese is only about $1.! Here in the states it is $17 a pound!