Date/Time
Date - 17/05/2024 - 19/05/2024
Time - All Day

Cheese & Chocolate Week-end 2024

LC Zürich

Dear IAESTE trainees and members,
Swiss food in two words: cheese & chocolate! IAESTE invites you to the Cheese and Chocolate Weekend 2024 on the 18th-19th May in the beautiful area of Gruyère and get a great taste of Switzerland!

During this weekend, we will visit the famous Maison Cailler, where we’ll eat chocolate and learn how it is made🤔. We will also visit Electrobroc, measure your strength on the bike💪, get to educate ourselves about electrical energy🎓 and assist in high voltage demonstrations😎. We will also visit a cheese making factory and taste different types of cheese! Last but not least, we will explore the medieval town and the castle of Gruyères.
On Saturday, we will go to the top of the emblematic mountain “Le Moléson” by cable car and watch the beautiful sunset; so take a pair of good shoes! Finally we will sleep in an amazing chalet in the middle of the mountain at Plan-Francey.

 

Program

Included in the participation fee:

• Guided tour at the Electrobroc power plant
• Visit the chocolate factory Maison Cailler
• Visit the cheese factory Maison du Gruyère
• Visit the Castle of Gruyère
• Transfers during the week-end (train, bus, and cable car)
• Accommodation from Saturday – Sunday
• Dinner on Saturday, Breakfast and Lunch on Sunday
• Loads of Fun !!

Not Included in the participation fee:

– Lunch on Saturday (Bring your food for Picnic)
– Transfers (Home – Broc-Fabrique on the 1st day, Gruyères – Home on the 2nd
day)
– Additional drinks during dinner on Saturday

Participation Fees

170 CHF per person.

Cancellation policy

If you cancel your participation and we can find a replacement, you will get a full refund. If you cancel less than 24h before the start of the event (i.e. on Friday 17th of May, at 10:00 am) and we don’t find a replacement, you will unfortunately not get any refund.

What to bring

In order to not have any bad surprises during the week-end, the following equipment will be necessary:

• Enough warm clothes
• If possible waterproof clothes and / or an umbrella, check the weather
• Good shoes for walking the whole day and at the mountain
• Usual bathroom / shower stuff, clothes to change, etc.
• Try to fit your stuff in a mountain backpack. Do not take a suitcase, as it will be very difficult to carry it around

Remember that we will be very mobile in the mountains. So only take the necessary stuff you need and try to fit it in a good backpack. If you don’t have any backpack, try to ask some friends. In the worst case, contact us (email: loic.betschen@lczurich.iaeste.ch, daniel.pace@lcbern.iaeste.ch, clement.verdes@lczurich.iaeste.ch, ) and we will find a solution.

Accommodation

We will sleep in the middle of the mountains at 1’600 m altitude at the beautiful restaurant-gîte de montagne de Plan-Francey.

Registration

Registration will open on Monday, 6th of May, at 1 pm! It works on a first-come, first-serve basis. If you don’t get a spot, you will be added to the waiting list.
On Monday 13th of May, everyone who got a spot will receive additional information to make the payment to finalize their registration. Those who will be on the waiting list will be informed of their status and if they get a spot, will receive information to finalize the registration.

The following payment methods will be accepted: IBAN transfer, Twint, Revolut.

There are only 16 spots available, so be quick!

You can register for the event by clicking here: https://forms.gle/T4YBCDjHDoGtfjQK9

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Summary

The meeting point will be the train station “Broc-” on Saturday, 18.05 at 9:57 am. The train connections from Lausanne, Bern, Basel and Zürich are given at the end of the description.
The end of the trip will be in the town of Gruyères at around 4pm. From there you can have some free time to spend in the town and take the train after 7pm if you wish.

The number of people already registered for this event is 0. The maximum number of participants allowed for this event is 16 (plus 3 organizers and helpers) and the registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. We reserve the right to prioritise IAESTE Switzerland affiliates during the first 48 hours of registration. If your registration is not among the first 16, it will be put on the waiting list.