Round the Château de Vaumarcus
Just in the last second we decided to join the Frifamily yesterday in a short outdoors tour around the Château de Vaumarcus nearby Neuchatel, Switzerland, an hour away from Bern. Boy I am glad we did. It was another of those outings in the Jura Mountains, you really feel good and wanna write about…
We had to park just a bit above the Castle, which has its own parking place, but was full of cars, whose owners were attending a church service?!
Anyway, thus we got the chance to see the castle from a higher perspective:
This small village was really beautiful with lots of modern villas, but I am really fond of the old ones, like this one from the “Vieux Village” (old village) street:
After a five minute walk, we’ve reached the entry of the castle,
where you can’t help but notice the secular tree in the castle’s garden, which was unfortunately closed at this time
We were comforted by the superb view on the Lake Neuchatel and the Swiss Alps:
After having taken a last picture back, from the vineyard in front of the castle,
we head to the next secular trees
I just love these paths through the vineyards, especially when the grapes are done :P
Look how small is my little son besides the mighty sequoia tree:
Awesome…
Full of the wisdom acquired from the secular trees, we head now for the woods, to check the younger spirits of nature
Don’t forget to take some more pictures along the way
Personally, I was only imaging how would be to drive a rally car around here - thank you Colin McRae…
At the end the wind forced us to take a shortcut through the woods, but in all was a really nice outing. I can’t wait to come back in autumn for the wine tasting, I mean grape tasting…
Resources:
- Arrival - Parking
- Alternatively drive 100m on the Vieux Village street, there’s a new parking there
- Château de Vaumarcus - official website
