La Chaux de Fonds 17 October

20151017 092304 Saturday, 17 October, Christine had some great coffee on the train to La Chaux de Fonds 20151017 093735 Local news 20151017 110221 Politicking in La C. de F. 20151017 111001 This town could be in France
20151017 111543 Not what I planned, but kinda nice in the end... 20151017 111547 What I was originally looking at.. DSCN4982 Leaf study I DSCN4983 Leaf study II
DSCN4986 Trying to locate the entrance to the model railroading club.. DSCN4987 Actually we should've just continued through and we would've found it. DSCN4988 La C. de F. still life DSCN4989 Definitely out of context here!
DSCN4991 Bargain prices! 20151017 113231 I remember that Dad had started to rig up lights inside the houses on our set. But look at the car headlights! DSCN4992 The train moves on! DSCN4994 This was the smaller guage layout
DSCN4995 This was the hidden back/underneath of the N guage layout DSCN5000 Building details 20151017 115635 A main station on the HO layout 20151017 115650 The big challenge is to guess where trains that disappeared into a tunnel will come out!
DSCN5010 Maniacal detail: newly turned furrows! DSCN5013 A little promenade above a canyon DSCN5004 and of course La Poya! DSCN5011 The cows marching up to the pasture...
DSCN5016 with the chauderon coming behind (see last months Désalpes in Charmey for the real thing) 20151017 122606 But maybe the main point of going to La C. de F. was to find this restaurant. 20151017 122745 It has been renovated so it does not look like the gritty proletariat bar/resto that we visited with the girls around 2000. 20151017 123000 I believe the name has stuck however.
20151017 123013 Where drunken welfare cases called their case workers, we now have wine bottles and wall decorations. 20151017 123204 The menu was a bit tongue-in-cheek 20151017 123220 "Anything is possible if you order in advance" DSCN5018 I still had to plan our exit strategy
20151017 130834 We had the plat de jour which was 5 chf more than advertised... 20151017 130838 probably because it was game meat: quite tasty and copious