Neuchâtel/Neuenburg

We just went to Neuchâtel for the first time last month. I think it only took like 20 minutes!!! It's really beautiful there, a nice lake (lake Neuchâtel), and looking across the lake you can see the Alps in the distance. I suppose the reason we had not come here sooner was that it's in the French speaking part of Switzerland (In German its name is Neuenburg).



Going into the city:




and they have a nifty little micro-brew resteraunt!!


and tiny plastic cars!

I thought a did a pretty good job of taking some pictures of the castle. nope. This guy did so much better:

http://www.swisscastles.ch/neuchatel/neuchatel_d.html


View of the city from the castle:

Climbing around the defensive walls of the castle, and here is the prison tower in the backround:

Climbing the stairs in the tower, here's an old wooden cell:

to the top! facing opposite the lake:

See me?: