C'est Cheese

C'est Cheese – 2 weeks
France (Burgundy, the Jura and Savoie) & Switzerland

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There is no better view of Europe’s astonishingly compact diversity than this ride. Burgundy, the Jura, the Savoie and French Switzerland, all of which you will visit, share borders and language, and once shared government. But they differ in scenery, cuisine, social order, and just about everything else. A closely-knit trip that leaves you feeling like you crossed a continent....

The cheese hommage in the title is justified by Epoisse, Langres, Ami de Chambertin (and a whole “Tower of Cheeses” in Cluny)... Gruyère, Compté, Bleu de Gex, Fribourg, Vacherin du Mont d’Or, Morbier, Reblochon, Tomme de Savoie... and a host of others, all made along our route. Served on post-dinner cheese trays, in sauces over steaks, in pots with white wine and kirsch (the famous fondue), scraped melted onto potatos with cured beef from the high Alps (raclette), with melted with fresh cream and onions (tartiflette), and accompanied by some of Europe’s most charming and diverse wines.

We finish with a couple of days in German Switzerland, in the beautiful Alpine resort of Zermatt. And our post-trip “Access Package” offers a fun night over the border in Italy. But you will instantly recognize that Domodossola, where you stay, has as much to do with where you have been as it does with the country to which it is now attached....
C’est Cheese
2008 Dates
Baggage Services Offered**
(optional)
Trip Prices*
June 29 -
July 12

Daily
Half
Lite
$3,275 US or C

2,075€

* Prices in $ and € do not include precisely the same things. Click here for details, and for prices of optional extras: private single rooms, baggage services, and (in the case of the € price only) bike rental and shipping.

** At least 4 riders must subscribe to a given baggage service for it to operate. The services listed are those currently offered on the departure in question. Services which appear in bold already have at least 3 subscribers (so, one more would ensure their operation). See here for a discussion of our baggage services.


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For details within each region, click on the name under “Region Visited”...
Days
Days of the Week
Region Visited
 Details
0
Sa
 Travel to Dijon (our Access Package is here)
1 - 7
Su - Tu
 Vineyards of the Côte d'Or
We & Th
 The Côte Chalonaise and the Mâconais
Fr & Sa
 Dijon, and a French continental divide
7
Sa
Train to Switzerland
7 - 14
Sa - Mo
 The Jura
Mo - Th
 Lake Geneva, the Alps
Th - Sa
 Zermatt, the Vispa Valley
Trip disbands Saturday, on arrival in Brig.
Saturday night in Italy is included in the post-trip Brig Access Package, to get you in place for ongoing travel on Sunday.
15
Su
Post-Access Package travel date