My name is Marion Vermazen. I am a traveler, hiker, reader, Sun alumnus, computer geek, YouTuber, Spanish and French language student, knitter, weaver and genealogist.
Le Locle
Today we spent the whole day exploring around Le Locle.
This rabbit is outside the Audemars Piguet watchmaking factory, one of many watch making factories in Le Locle.
We started our tour by driving to Champ du Moulin in Areuse Gorge. In Champ du Moulin we stopped for coffee.
The restaurant where we had coffee is on the left. Having coffee
Then we drove to La Chaux-de-Fonds where we visited the Farmers and Craft museum. The museum is in an old farm house built in 1612.
Old farm house containing the Farmers and Craft museum. The farm people and the animals lived on the ground floor and the barn was above. You can see where they would pass the hay from the barn down to the animal mangers below. There were two ladies doing a lace making demonstration.
We drove back to Le Locle, had some lunch and then went to Cave Mills “Col-des-Riches”, a subterranean mill built and first used in the seventeenth century. We had an audio guide and went down into the caves where the mills , waterwheels and workshops were. It was cold, wet and fascinating.
A model of the enormous underground mills. Looking down into the cavesOne of the underground water wheels.
For dinner we went to a crepe place a couple of blocks from where we were staying and had galettes. They were savory crepes.
Special Galette made with Gruyère, asparagus, pesto and zucchini. Ham and cheese galette.
I am a traveler, hiker, avid reader, Sun alumnus, computer geek, Spanish and French language student, knitter and genealogist. I am retired after working for almost 30 years in the Computer Industry. I live in Reno, Nevada with my husband Duke.
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Very cool! I hope you get to go into a watch factory. So happy for Elaine!
Such an varied and interesting post! Loved the craft museum and the underground area! I guess being underground allowed them to work regardless of the weather! I’m not sure I would enjoy sharing my housing with the animals!!!
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Very cool! I hope you get to go into a watch factory. So happy for Elaine!
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Such an varied and interesting post! Loved the craft museum and the underground area! I guess being underground allowed them to work regardless of the weather! I’m not sure I would enjoy sharing my housing with the animals!!!
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