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.
Today we left the French speaking part of Switzerland and moved into the German speaking part of the country. Before leaving Le Locle I took some pictures of the city hall and Duke and Rick went grocery shopping.
It was nice to see the sun and no rain today after having several rainy days. I’d rather have cold and sun than warmer weather and rain. Today we drove south and east through idyllic Swiss country side.
Today we spent the whole day exploring around Le Locle.
We started our tour by driving to Champ du Moulin in Areuse Gorge. In Champ du Moulin we stopped for 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.
We drove back to Le Locle, had some lunch and then went to Cave Mills “Col-des-Roches”, 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.
For dinner we went to a crepe place a couple of blocks from where we were staying and had galettes. They were savory crepes.
We took it easy at our hotel in La. Tour-de-Peilz this morning. Our room overlooked Lac Léman aka Lake Geneva. It was fun to watch women going ready to go out rowing.
We had a short drive today to Le Locle where Elaine’s father was born.
This afternoon we had beer and hot wine at a local bar near our hotel.
Then we went across the street to a local restaurant.
The first thing on the menu is horse steak. Duke and Rick had the second thing on the menu. It was a very good beef steak. Elaine had a half order of the roast beef. I had a Swiss specialty, number five on the menu Bolets roesti. It was a kind of potato pancake with mushroom stroganoff. It was all very good.
It was raining when we woke up this morning and it rained most of the day.
We drove into the Alps to the town of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc. Unfortunately we couldn’t see the top of Mont Blanc but we had many glimpses of the stunning mountains through the clouds.
From Chamonix-Mont-Blanc it was only a few miles further east over the mountains until we were in Switzerland.
Tonight we are staying in La Tour-de-Peilz on Lac Léman.
The sun came out as we were checking in. But then a bit later an enormous storm with lightening, thunder, hail and rain completely obscured the view
Tonight we are on the edge of the Chartreuse Mountains in southeastern France. We are staying in a Chambres d’Hôtes over looking Lac d’Aiguebelette. Tonight is our last night in France.
For dinner we went to the other side of the lake to Restaurant Les Roselières. Our meal was excellent. Each dish was a work of art full of nuanced nuanced flavors.
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