Posts Tagged ‘Switzerland’

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 [...]

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 [...]

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Photo taken during our walk today for Ruffled Feathers fall scarflette giveaway contest.  Her scarflettes are beautiful and I want one!
I need to do dishes and bath the kids before bedtime.  So, I don’t have time to process more photos from our walk.  However, I will put more up tomorrow and again [...]

There are times I forget that I live in a tiny Swiss village.  Life becomes normal and routine.  
And, then I look out my bedroom window and see cows grazing in a field.

After we picked up my four year old from the bus stop, we sat on a bench under our favorite tree (shown above) [...]

My son has started going to our village garderie (daycare). He has been three times so far and he loves it. We pack his backpack with his house shoes (children do not wear shoes inside) and tissues for his runny nose. He puts his backpack on with his sisters and after we [...]

We collected pine cones in the forest during our Sunday walk.

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To distract my son from wanting me to carry him, Vilay gave him a large stick. Within five minutes each child had a huge branch that they drug behind them. They drug those branches for most of the walk [...]

I love refections in windows and flowers in window sills.  This photo has both.

Underside of a roof.
I like when the underside is painted with an image or design.

Very old sign with Helvetia written on it.  There is the faint image of a sewing machine above the lettering but it is almost impossible to see even [...]

We took a walk in the rain yesterday. I drug out the winter coats for the kids which are waterproof and warm. With the rain it is starting to get cold outside.  
Last night, we shut our bedroom window for the first time in months.  

What the mountains look like during a light [...]

Since moving to Switzerland we have discovered Appenzeller [A-pent-seller] cheese.   It is a strong smelling cheese that even I cannot resist.  I, normally, cannot get over the barnyard smell that characterizes most washed-rind cheeses.  However, I have no problem eating my share of Appenzeller.  C’est tres bon!!!
We have a dairy store in our village which [...]

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 [...]