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Europe » Switzerland » North-West » Jura » Delémont September 19th 2010

(this is written in Strasbourg on 22/9 so ability to write/post has been somewhat limited) After a rather long sleep - it was Sunday of course, but I was rather tired out after having a restless night in Paris thinking of my trip to Switz. to see Gisele and Francois after all these years - I awoke with somewhat of a start at 10.20. Francois had done his Sunday chore of collecting about 5 different types of bread and rolls from 2 different bakeries to enjoy with their homemade jam and coffee. Then the lunch project was to drive the car up the hill someway - Delemont is in a long valley but there are steepish hills on either side. Then to walk cross country through the forest to a farmhouse type lunch place, a type ... read more
resto Claude-Chappuis
Corentin does the chocolate
Corentin avec hat

Europe » Switzerland » North-West » Jura » Delémont September 18th 2010

(not exactly Basel - have asked them to list Delemont! - now adjusted) this is begun sitting on the train in Basel to go to Colmar, back in France - after my lovely weekend in Switzerland in Delemont in the Jura canton. I travelled via TGV from Paris Gare de l'Est, which is only 2 metro stops away from where my hotel was on line 4 - another good reason why that hotel was so handy. Got to the station of plenty of time and had time to buy a double espresso (very hot in a cardboard cup!) with a chocolate croissant before boarding the train to leave at 10.43am - it took til 1.55pm to get to Basel. Wgen the man next to ne strated reading a book in English (which proved to be a ... read more
Francois at Rue des Vergers




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