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Do you know where the 200 missing British tourists are now?

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mokryna Sun 27-Dec-20 15:51:43

400 British tourists in Switzerland were asked to isolate but 200 left during the following night. Where are they now?

biba70 Sun 27-Dec-20 21:52:53

Closed right now- hopefully will be able to continue soon, as we have a 'Deal'. No Deal would have been a disaster

britishcheese.ch/

also sells British sausages, and all sorts of British goodies. Can order by post. Really nice guy

GagaJo Sun 27-Dec-20 21:55:11

There aren't many UK things I miss now, having been abroad off and on for about 10 years. Yorkshire Tea, Rich Tea biscuits, Marmite. The eye watering price of meat means a very vegetable and cheese based diet for me.

biba70 Sun 27-Dec-20 22:02:43

Have you tried Cenovis yet- the Swiss version of Marmite. Slightly different taste, but same ingredients and also loaded with Vitamins and yeast.

Ellianne Sun 27-Dec-20 22:07:16

That guy at the Zürich cheese shop certainly knows his cream teas! Clotted cream first, jam on top!

mokryna Sun 27-Dec-20 22:07:22

Miss Christmas pudding and mince pies at the moment.

GagaJo Sun 27-Dec-20 22:07:26

Oooo no. I didn't know there was such a thing. My students have tried my Marmite and hated it. None of them mentioned a local alternative.

Ellianne Sun 27-Dec-20 22:10:21

I missed Bisto for gravy making.

Callistemon Sun 27-Dec-20 22:23:32

Ellianne

That guy at the Zürich cheese shop certainly knows his cream teas! Clotted cream first, jam on top!

shock
Noooo!

mokryna Sun 27-Dec-20 22:25:30

I like Marmite but I believe because I hadn’t had Marmite for years, I became allergic to it.☹️

biba70 Sun 27-Dec-20 22:29:32

Callistemon

Ellianne

That guy at the Zürich cheese shop certainly knows his cream teas! Clotted cream first, jam on top!

shock
Noooo!

He is from Yorkshire- go figure.

Callistemon Sun 27-Dec-20 22:35:13

I do hope his scones are plain and not fruit ones.

(Head in hands)

mokryna Mon 28-Dec-20 08:28:26

The BBC mentioned the problem this morning on the radio. Some of the tourists are demanding their money be refunded. As the Swiss government have their private addresses I hope all the countries they travel through will fine them. I have lived through two very strict lockdowns when I needed dated and signed documents to leave home and now a curfew in order to curtail this spread.

Ellianne Mon 28-Dec-20 09:21:33

Yes, fine them mokryna.
The trouble you have there though is that when you consider the cost of a skiing holiday, a fine will only seem like peanuts to them.

Bathsheba Mon 28-Dec-20 09:27:54

Callistemon

Ellianne

That guy at the Zürich cheese shop certainly knows his cream teas! Clotted cream first, jam on top!

shock
Noooo!

Nothing wrong with that. The age old question of whether it's cream or jam on top is often simply down to whether you're in Devon or Cornwall: in Devon the tradition is cream first, then jam on top; in Cornwall it's jam first with cream on top. So the fellow in Zurich is serving a Devonshire Cream Tea wink

MawBe Mon 28-Dec-20 09:30:50

Where are they now?
Surely queuing at the Channel Tunnel along with the queues of lorries coming the other way and (not) supplying our fresh fruit and veg?

Ellianne Mon 28-Dec-20 09:39:58

Do you think they've bumped into the royal Yorks yet?

Ellianne Mon 28-Dec-20 09:44:52

I live in Devon but have to adapt my cream teas à la Cornwall because I like butter first, then jam, then cream. If you put the cream on top of the butter it is fat overload.

Anyway, where's the croissants, petits pains and hot Swiss chocolate for my breakfast?

Chewbacca Mon 28-Dec-20 10:01:23

Is it worth considering that, if Switzerland had closed its ski resorts, as other European countries have done in an effort to control the pandemic, there would have been no tourists there in the first place? Austria, France, Germany & Italy closed their ski resorts to everyone except local people, and for 24th December only, until the New Year when they'll 're evaluate their position 're the COVID rates. I wonder what impelled Switzerland to open theirs?

Ellianne Mon 28-Dec-20 10:08:07

Money chewbacca?

Ellianne Mon 28-Dec-20 10:09:26

Didn't the virus all kick off back here last year when a British tourist returned from a Swiss ski resort, or Austrian?

PamelaJ1 Mon 28-Dec-20 10:16:48

Earlier this year we had to isolate in a hotel room in Perth until we got on a plane back to the U.K., we had been in Aus for 2months! That was definitely a backdated rule.
We hadn’t heard of Covid till we had already arrived in Aus.

All of the people on their skiing holiday must have known they were taking a risk.

biba70 Mon 28-Dec-20 10:17:04

GagaJo

We made cheese last time we went to Verbier. Didn't get to taste it because it wasn't delivered before we left, but the ripening rooms smelled wonderful, although the students weren't keen!

A lot of Swiss cheese sold in UK is for export market and not well matured. Very few places sell 'the real thing' - perhaps the best being the Cheese place near Burough Market in Southwark.

Callistemon Mon 28-Dec-20 10:20:32

Ellianne we don't put butter on, just jam and cream.
Butter on fruit scones.

Chewbacca Mon 28-Dec-20 10:23:37

Money chewbacca?

Surely not Ellianne? They'd not put monetary gain over the safety of both tourists and Swiss nationals?

Ellianne Mon 28-Dec-20 10:25:47

Callistemon

Ellianne we don't put butter on, just jam and cream.
Butter on fruit scones.

Butter on everything for me, even with salt crystals. I spent my formative years in Brittany, and my fiancés parents were dairy farmers. Lashings of it!