Walking around Wavre

On our final day we took a walk around Wavre, the small town where Bryn and Herve's new house is located. It has about 100 houses total and is located between Lake Neuchatel and Lake Bienne on the west side of the canal joining them. The first range of the Jura is less than 1 km west of the village.
The approach to the town. In the distance to the north is Lake Biel/Bienne. To the east of the town are orchards and vegetable gardens.
This house and those that follow are all on the one main street (Grand Rue).
Some houses have a conservatory added on.
The older houses often have a converted stable attached to them.



The village elementary school.
The old manor house which has extensive stables. 
It's always busy at the stables with jitneys ...
..horses being taken out on the streets and byways for exercise ....
... and horses taking turns in the automatic "exerciser". The cages would rotate the opposite way after a while. Brandon and Alicia like to visit the horses at the stables as often as someone will take them there.
Bryn and Hervé's house from the back. The solar panel would not be heating much water on this day. It is interesting to see the number of houses in Wavre that have solar panels. Note the palm tree in the back garden! The mild air in the town between the two lakes helps them survive. There are several palm tress in Wavre!
Side view. The "guest bedroom" is below the balcony. The computer room has the balcony. Brandon and Alicia each have large bedrooms and Bryn and Herve have an extremely large bedroom. This year, Hervé plans to put a kitchen garden and green house here in the back garden to have fresh vegetables readily available.
The large level back garden has many types of flowers at the boundary.
The first Spring flowers in early March.

Comments

Margot said…
Looks like a beautiful town. Although they all are in Switzerland...
March 10, 2009 at 9:05 a.m.
The 85 Factor said…
It looks like an idyllic place to raise children. Great pictures of the houses, Sandra.
March 11, 2009 at 5:07 p.m.
The Old and the Restless said…
On the same walk that afternoon, Paul spotted a boy about 15, naked from the waist up (which is all we could see) but with a duvet around his shoulders, sticking out of an open window in the roof, smoking. Each time I went to take his picture, he ducked down. I wondered why he wasn't in school and what he was smoking.
March 11, 2009 at 8:58 p.m.
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