La Maison du Banneret Wisard - an impressive smoking chamber with most tasty output!

Daphodills as far as the eye reaches

April comes, and 100'000s of daphodills are out in the Jura. One of the very best places to see fields over and over in yellow: Cerneux Godat, a tiny settlment to the North of Les Bois, also with very beautiful Jura houses!

Magnificient Animals at the foot of Chasseral

The Bison farm is in Les Colisses du Bas, a good hour of walk from the final station of the bus climbing up from Biel to Pres d'Orvin/Le Grillong. Follow the walking trail and not the road, which unfortunately is very busy with people that prefer to climb the mountains in their 4*4! What a hassle! More on http://www.bisonranch.ch/

They are a magnificient animal - just a pity they are American bisons, and not the European ones. In their sizable flock under the Jura sapins at the foot of Chasseral, they make dream of the vast forests Europe has once been covered with. Not bad either: Bison terrine and home made bread!

Under Construction!!! La Chaux des Breuleux

Under Construction!!! Etang de la Gruere - the Pearl of the Franches Montagnes

After 36 hours of snowing in the Franches Montagnes

Two Reasons to visit Les Bois

L'Auberge de l'Ours, Les Bois; Tel. 032 961 14 45; Ferme du dimanche a 18 heures au mardi a 18 heures;

There are at least two reasions to visit the tiny "Les Bois" village (with some very urban high rising buildings giving the village a real special character) between Saignelegier and la Chaux de Fonds: The Boucherie Pierre Billat where customers come from far and queue up for long to get meat which is said to be one of the best in the region. And the "Auberge de l'Ours" where service ranks among the friendliest in all the Franche-Montagnes, a nice little menu with the common Jura specials raning from Cuisses to Jambon cuit, and pretty tables in pink!

Croute aux Morilles (the morilles unfortunately not from the region)

And extra fresh chips for a little girl that has just woken up!

When in the old times there was only one church in the Franche Montagnes, in Montfaucon (L'Eglise-Mère was the only church in the Franches Montagnes, until the 16th century), the people from Les Bois on their way to Montfaucon had a rest in the hamlet of Les Emibois. As the place has been mid-way to the church for the people from Les Bois, the origins of the name of the hamlet are said to have developed from (de)mi (chemin des gens de les) bois!