So close to Swiss

The following pictures were taken during a MTB tour in the south of my parents house. Our village is 20 km far from the border outer switzerland.... And during a ride it's easy to cross the boundary at the checkpoints or not!!!! But in this part of Switzerland the main language is german or a swiss-german dialect... So I often don't understand the people after crossing the boundary!

On this map (I know google-map is my friend now!!!) you can see the village called Berentzwiller and have a look to the south and the south-east to see the Switzerland limits.


Agrandir le plan



This one was taken from the garden, and you can see my quiet neighbourhood... And our milk factory!

A typical track in the forest

Panorama taken from the top of the last French hill!!! The little village called Roggenburg is already in Switzerland....

Maybe the last french cow...

On the top of this last French hill we can find some bunkers which are the end of the Maginot line. They were built in the 30's in order to prevent France from a German invasion across the Rhin river, the Belgium and the Switzerland. But I'll tell you more about these constructions in another post.

An artillery observatory

A troup shelter