Miniature Wonderland! - Swiss Vapeur Park, Le Bouveret

Swiss vapeur park is an amusement park located at Le Bouveret on the other end side of geneva lake in Canton Vaud near montreux.

It's a miniature wonderland for kids with different kinds of mini version of swiss trains like those Sbb trains all over switzerland and swiss steam trains.




We had a weekend trip to Le bouveret to visit swiss vapeur park and swiss aquaparc. It's perfect for a family like us because they're just on the same location, no long walking required since we have twin babies with us.

It's not just for kids but for the whole family.You pay for a day entrance and you can ride all the trains as much as you want, aside from mini trains they also have mini replicas like castles and popular churches in switzerland.

They have kiosks and souvenir shops inside the park and if you want to bring your own food they have picnic area too.




I subscribe my son to Sbb magic ticket for kids and as a member we got a discount for an entry ticket in Vapeur park and to other amusement parks. 

(Magicticket.ch for all the infos.)

The good thing is ,it's just across the street from Le bouveret train station for those who don't have cars or for those who want to travel by train.

And it's near Le Bouveret Bahnhof (station). There is a BnB La Berg du Lac-Valentin (just few meters from bouveret bahnhof) we paid 100fr. for a night for a quadruple room with breakfast. The owner is very nice but just speaks in french or maybe a bit english, my husband is speaking french so we didn't have problems at all.

We love Swiss vapeur parc and Le Bouveret, such a lovely place! We will come back again soon :)

For all the infos check the link below.

Swiss vapeur parc,Le bouveretRoute de la Plage, 1897 Le Bouveret

http://www.swissvapeur.ch/en/

Happiness is where Happyland is! - Happyland, Switzerland

We visited Happyland during our visit in Valais (Wallis in german) during our son's school spring break. It was a sunny afternoon and a not-so-crowded day.




They have have interesting and fun rides for the whole family like:

*Splash river
*Nautic jets
*Big swing

*Boyo
*Cherokee
*Simulator 3D

And a lot more!




My son is crazy about cars and this car track which they called Formula VD (Vaud the name of the canton/state) is perfect for kids like him. We never experienced long qeues at that time, i don't know if it was low season but no long waiting at all.

All in all we enjoyed our visit and we hope to go back again this year. Valais  (Wallis) is a beatiful place in switzerland with beautiful mountain view, they have an underground lake nearby that we visited as well.

For the entrance price click the link below:
Happyland Valais,Switzerland
Happyland,Rue du Foulon 3977

http://www.happylandnew.ch/index.php/en/Informations/Prices.html

Hubby Bakes! - Le pain d'épices de reim

Le pain d'épices de reim  in english "spice bread",according to wikipedia "it is sometimes loosely translated as ginger bread. Again,the husband came home with baking ingredients,he said he'll bake a french bread which is his favorite childhood food when they used to live in the french speaking part of switzerland,in Moudon.




It looks easy to bake,it took him maybe 15min. or less to do all the work then 1hr in the oven.On the photo above it's wrapped to keep the moist of the bread.




The 4-spice






Ingredients


450g Chestnut honey, dark, liquid

25 cl of milk, lukewarm

100g butter, melted

150 White flour

300g full corn flour

1 Tbs. Bicarbonated baking powder

30g brown sugar

1 Egg

1 pinch of salt

2 Tbs.olive oil

1/2 Teaspoon cinnamon

Fresh Muscat (freshly grated)

Ginger Powder

Cloves Powder

Anise, ground

Butter for the form.

Preparation:


Mix all the ingredients into a dough, pour into a greased Loaf pan 170 ° C bake for about 45 minutes an wrap overnight to keep the moist. So easy right?