This was started a loooong time ago. * * * For the past 3 days I was in a little teeny tiny Swiss village called Le Bémont, in the Jura Canton, near the French border. According to wikipedia (German edition) Le Bémont has 346 inhabitants, soon to be 347, since the lady who runs the hostel is hugely pregnant and ready to pop! But she was so nice. To get to Le Bémont was a bit of a trek. I first arrived in Basel via Germany, then too a regional train to Glovelier, then transfer onto the 'Jura Train', and then push a button on the train so the conductor would make the stop. The whole thing was so quient! The Jura train is only one track (maybe there is a name for this) and the
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