Keeping it hot...

Calm down! The Montreux post has a continuation! here it is:

After Montreux we headed to the only reason why Miki came to Switzerland: the Alien bar! Yes, you can find one there and of course not only that. At the top of the not so high mountain, the medieval city of Gruyère and its castle is one of the few cities from that age that are still up. Formed of moody stony streets and restaurants with Alpine decorations and delicious meals, like the typical fondue.

The main street of the middle-age city of Gruyere and the castle towers on right at the end and...

The Gruyere chateau!

Small shops sell the gruyère cheese, folklore articles, and the fantastic 'Crème double de la Gruyère avec meringues', nothing but a creamy cheese cream with meringues, a famous Swiss dessert around here which I learned with my hungarian-suisse friend Andi.

plus

meringues, the perfect marriage (one of my passions besides chocolate!)

Also, if you are a cheese addicted like us, you might have already heard the name Gruyère before. Yes, that is it. The Swiss gruyère, a cheese of unique taste is produced not far from the castle and the factory can be visited. Another attraction for us.

THE Gruyère cheese.

Then, after checking the delightful little shops we went to look for the bar. And there it was, right besides the museum with the same topic! Amazing figures and also the public inside. We had to enter and taste an alien drink. It was very good and not necessarily more expensive than a normal coffee shop! We enjoyed a lot!

This I copied from the bar site...it is just awesome:

"MUSEUM HR GIGER BAR (Giger was the creator of the alien style!)
in Château St. Germain, Gruyères, Switzerland

The interior of the otherworldly environment that is the H.R. Giger Museum Bar is a cavernous, skeletal structure covered by double arches of vertebrae that crisscross the vaulted ceiling of an ancient castle. The sensation of being in this extraordinary setting recalls the tale of Jonah and the whale, lending the feel of being literally in the belly of a fossilized, prehistoric beast, or that
you have been transported into the remains of a mutated future civilization. "

THe Alien bar interior and...... me frightened in the Alien chair!

It really deserves a visit if one is around there. After the coffee, up to the castle, there was some presentation going on and they were shooting "cannons" probably against the invaders with all those middle-age dresses and guards. We could walk around them and discovered mountains all around it with funiculars that go 2000 m high! That deserves a better visit to be made not so far away!

It was a memorable weekend!

Sources: wikipedia, Gruyere tourism site, Giger museum bar