Bergeon

Yesterday (being Friday 21st Feb) we went on a field trip to Bergeon and to visit a clock and watch museum in Le Locle. We had a wonderful experience at Bergeon with the sales manager sharing some interesting information but even better was the absolutely devine lunch we had a lovely restaurant. Salmon ceasar salad to start, wonderful local wine, delicous chicken main and even chocolate mouse desert. YUMMY especially after the wonderful we are being fed at Champreveyre. It was nice to see the Bergeon show room and see all the latest products to be released at Basel Fair (massive international watch and jewellery fair here in Switzerland held every year), we also have the oportunity to place an order and get some very good prices before the end of our course. However the highlight of the day would have to be the visit to the museum. The whole building /castle is full of clocks from all centuries as well as a few music boxes and whole floor dedicated to watches and there development through time and a wonderful collection of automats also which were truely fascinating to see. As you can tell from the photos there is alot more snow in Le Locle even though it is only 20km from Neuchatel. It was loads of fun the snow kinda looks hard but your foot goes straight through it. Good thing the boys have bad aim and the few snow balls thrown around missed their target.

Life here in Neuchatel has become a bit of a routine which is nice all the same and to add a bit of flavour to the diet we have started going to a near by pub on a wednesday for FR1o pizza night with some of the watchmakers from last years refresher course.