I enjoyed very much this excursion in the French Jura: beautiful lanscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of the region: the making of the absinthe (Pontarlier-the world capital of the absinthe-, the prohibition in 1915, the clandestine distillers in Switzerland-Francis Martin Martin speaking of the clandestine distilling-, since 2001 the producers are allowed to make absinthe en France and since 2005 in Switzerland), the République du Saugeais (11 communes of the Doubs department, the joke between a French prefect and a restaurant owner in 1947, Georgette Pourchet-Bertin, the president of the Republic and Jean-Marie Nicod the Prime Minister and farmer, the own Republic anthem, the postage stamps and a great sense of humour of the inhabitants), the Pôle France (the training center for winter sports athletes, the biathlon athletes Leslie Mercier ,Ludwig Ehrhart and the coach Patrice Bailly-Salins), the sound engineer Boris Jollivet and the saxophonist Olivier Rambaud (the sound records, the sounds and the music played in an acoustitic place ) and the forests of the Jura (the lumberjack Bernard Michaud and the European spruce, the spruce wood prepared for the luthiers).
I enjoyed the encounters of Sophie with the gendarmerie adjutant Nicolas Vergeot in Mouthe, with Christelle Carmillet and Fabienne Poux-Daude in Pontarlier, with Bénédicte and Thomas Paulin in the Obertino bells foundry, with Jean-Charles Arnaud at the Fort des Rousses, with Stéphane Niveau at the Centre Polaire Paul Emile Victor, with the musher and llama breeder Gilles Balandras, with Martine Chazotte at the guesthouse of La Pesse and with Michel Borneat at the Lac Génin; nice encounters with very kind Jura men and women.
There are some interesting aspects of the region: the making of the absinthe (Pontarlier-the world capital of the absinthe-, the prohibition in 1915, the clandestine distillers in Switzerland-Francis Martin Martin speaking of the clandestine distilling-, since 2001 the producers are allowed to make absinthe en France and since 2005 in Switzerland), the République du Saugeais (11 communes of the Doubs department, the joke between a French prefect and a restaurant owner in 1947, Georgette Pourchet-Bertin, the president of the Republic and Jean-Marie Nicod the Prime Minister and farmer, the own Republic anthem, the postage stamps and a great sense of humour of the inhabitants), the Pôle France (the training center for winter sports athletes, the biathlon athletes Leslie Mercier ,Ludwig Ehrhart and the coach Patrice Bailly-Salins), the sound engineer Boris Jollivet and the saxophonist Olivier Rambaud (the sound records, the sounds and the music played in an acoustitic place ) and the forests of the Jura (the lumberjack Bernard Michaud and the European spruce, the spruce wood prepared for the luthiers).
I enjoyed the encounters of Sophie with the gendarmerie adjutant Nicolas Vergeot in Mouthe, with Christelle Carmillet and Fabienne Poux-Daude in Pontarlier, with Bénédicte and Thomas Paulin in the Obertino bells foundry, with Jean-Charles Arnaud at the Fort des Rousses, with Stéphane Niveau at the Centre Polaire Paul Emile Victor, with the musher and llama breeder Gilles Balandras, with Martine Chazotte at the guesthouse of La Pesse and with Michel Borneat at the Lac Génin; nice encounters with very kind Jura men and women.