Sunday in Erlach

Brandon has two weeks holiday in October. To get him off to an enjoyable start, Sandra Brandon and I decided to bicycle across the Thielle to the German side of the canal and continue to Erlach. While Brandon had often bicycled on the canal before, he had always stayed to the French speaking side.

Near the north end of the canal, we detoured into a woods and emerged on Lake Bienne at a camping ground / playground. The park contained a huge "wooden sailing ship" jungle gym for kids to play on. Here Brandon has climbed up to the "crow's nest".

After leaving the camping park we pushed our bicycles up into the partly fortified Erlach "old town" to have a look from our favorite vantage point. [Unfortunately, that day was the Erlach "harvest festival" and a big pizza serving operation had been set up at the look out. Every town in the wine growing region of Switzerland seems to have its own "harvest festival". Erlach is small enough not to have a big parade but only to fill the streets with booths to sell "n'importe quoi". ]
Here is a view of the lower town from the upper old town.

We returned to the campground (stopping for ice cream on the way) to have a picnic lunch after which Brandon tried out the 10 meter slide. The marching bands in New Orleans could learn how to "strut" from Brandon after he roared down the slide!!!! We then bicycled back along the Thielle past Wavre to the zoo at Lake Neuchatel to make it a 25 km round trip five hour ride.