{"id":268,"date":"2012-08-20T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joncu.roguenet.org\/swissblog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2021-09-21T22:48:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T22:48:35","slug":"the-longest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/2012\/08\/20\/the-longest-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Longest Day – Yverdon"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Plan:\u00a0 bike 90+km to Yverdon-les-Bains, overnight at a hotel, bike home along the north side of Lake Neuchatel. The actual trip: bike 96km over too many hills in too hot weather with too little sunscreen, try to lift legs to walk through Yverdon, collapse in worse-than-basic hotel room, eat hotel\u2019s petite dejeuner (not<\/em> a Swiss-style fruhstuck), strain over steep terraced hillsides to Neuchatel, let the SBB do the pedaling from there to Bern.\u00a0 In other words, we had another great weekend!\u00a0 Herewith the pics.<\/p>\n

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\"Murten<\/a>

Skyline of Medieval Murten, overlooking the Murtensee<\/p><\/div>\n

Tiny Murten has a big reputation. It has a nice medieval old town and a nearly fully preserved town wall.\u00a0 We sampled the local specialty:\u00a0 Nidelkuchen (cream cake).<\/p>\n

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\"Murten\"<\/a>

Jon in Murten<\/p><\/div>\n

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Throughout Switzerland there are remains of Roman rule.\u00a0 We climbed the hill in Avenches to see its ancient amphitheater.<\/p>\n

\"Avenches\"<\/a>

Avenches Amphitheater<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Yverdon<\/a>

1757 Protestant Temple in Yverdon-les-Bains<\/p><\/div>\n

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North of Yverdon are menhirs (standing stones), some five thousand years old.\u00a0 They were reset in their original positions in 1986, one of many clusters of Neolithic stone circles and dolmens near Lake Neuch\u00e2tel.<\/p>\n

\"Stone<\/a>

Old rocker by old rock<\/p><\/div>\n

A brief pause, after climbing through the vineyards, by an old palace.\u00a0 There was someone working on the landscaping, so I casually asked him (in French) whether this place was his.\u00a0 He told me no, but it is for sale.\u00a0 Perhaps I would like to buy?<\/p>\n

\"Castle<\/a>

Know anyone looking for a chateau near Neuch\u00e2tel? This one is available, complete with guard's armor atop the entry.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Eglise Coll\u00e9gial, Neuch\u00e2tel’s Cathedral, has a 1372 ‘Monument to the Counts’, memorial statues to its rulers.\u00a0 During the Reformation, the town folk so identified this as purely Neuch\u00e2telois that they refused to tear it down when the rest of the artwork was being destroyed.<\/p>\n

\"Neuchatel<\/a>

Monument to the Counts in the Eglise Collegial<\/p><\/div>\n

Beside the Eglise stands a former chateau, now a public building where government business is conducted.\u00a0 The courtroom’s walls are lined with heraldic shields which tell the history of the town’s rulers.<\/p>\n

\"Neuchatel<\/a>

Neuchatel Courtroom<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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