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An afternoon in the city


We took the train to Bienne on Sunday. It was nice to get out of the Jura for the day. We didn’t actually visit Bienne much but walked to Nidau which touches Bienne.
 

We ate sandwiches by the fountain in Bienne before walking to Nidau.  

A leaf caught in a web.  It looks like [...]

Solothurn, Switzerland


Solothurn didn’t look like much from the train station. However, once we found our way to the old center we were excited to explore the city.
My favorite memory of that day at the end of June was when we enjoyed a glass of cool white wine at a stand with friendly locals. We [...]

Solothurn (Soleure), Switzerland


We visited Solothurn at the end of June but I never got around to sharing it. Each time I would remember there was something else that I wanted to post or I would forget for months at a time.
Here are some images from that day at the end of June when the weather was [...]

Désalpe du Boéchet


Saturday, we went to the désalpe du Boéchet.  It’s that time again.  
Time for the cows to come back home.  
 
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La Désalpe - The Day I came Home with the Swiss Cows - Beautifully written and witty account of the day Jules Ritter came home with the cows.
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Les Breuleux to Tramelan (Part III)


I found myself missing the beautiful weather we had this past weekend as I was processing the last of the photos that we took from our walk.
Today, it is rainy and cold in contrast to Sunday which was sunny and warm.
The following photos will take you from near Le Pied d’Or until Tramelan which was [...]

Les Breuleux to Tramelan (Part II)


The photos in this post were taken from the forest near La Chaux-de-Breuleux until near La Pied d’or. We started our walk in Les Breuleux and continued on until Tramelan as I wrote in my last post.

We found this drawer with a riddle inside during one of our walks last summer.  I asked the girls [...]

Les Breuleux to Tramelan by foot


Sunday, we walked from Les Breuleux to Tramelan buying our train tickets one way each direction. We do it this way because we never know where we will end up. A general plan is laid out and then we decide where to end based on how we (the children mostly) feel.  I recommend [...]

Beautiful day spent in Neuchâtel


Neuchâtel is one of our favorite places to get away for the day. It is always relaxing.

The girls playing by the water.

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I would love to have been on that sailboat!

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A large tourist boat cruising by as a man is fishing from his much smaller boat.  I loved how [...]

Sunday walk in the Jura


Sunday, I made homemade peanut butter cookies which did not last long at all!
We took a long walk from Les Breuleux to Le Peuchapatte and back to work off some of those cookies!  It was a total of 8 km which is close to 5 miles.
I wanted to walk all the way to Les Bois [...]

Goumois


Goumois is a little special. Why, you may ask? Well, Goumois is two villages.  One is French and the other is Swiss.  The villages are divided by the Doubs River with a bridge joining them.   Before the Treaty of Vienna Goumois was one village but afterwards it was separated into two.
The two [...]