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

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

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.

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

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

Miss Christmas pudding and mince pies at the moment.

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.

I missed Bisto for gravy making.

Ellianne

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

Noooo!

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

Callistemon

Ellianne

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

Noooo!

He is from Yorkshire- go figure.

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

(Head in hands)

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.

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.

Callistemon

Ellianne

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

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

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?

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

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?

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?

Money chewbacca?

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

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.

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.

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

Money chewbacca?

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

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!