Issue No. 13

A captivating Corner of Paradise
Haute-Savoie
Janine Marsh visits a farm where Reblochon cheese is
made and finds a little bit of heaven in the hills...
"This is a little corner of Paradise" says the
old lady throwing her arms wide and
indicating at the window of her farmhouse
in the mountains of Haute-Savoie, not far
from the lovely city of Annecy.
We are sitting in her kitchen on a July
afternoon, the cloud is low and the mist is
thick, a rarity for this month she says.
I had started to hike to this little farm from
the village of Manigod with my friend
Gaëlle, but she, a local, decided we should
drive when a shower of rain threatened to
drench us. Normally, summer offers a
lovely, sunny stroll through fields of
meadow flowers and cows, their metal
bells chiming and creating an orchestra of
sound, a magical wind chime effect.