A Drink in the Hotel Bar... Shall We Go to France or Switzerland? ; Giles Milton Stays in the Jura, Slap-Bang Between the Two, for a Hiking and Cross-Country Skiing Tour
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NOT every day do you get to sleep in a bed that straddles an international frontier.
But if you stay at the Hotel Arbez Franco-Suisse, in the mountainous Jura region of France, that's exactly what you get. The hotel is built slap-bang on the border between France and Switzerland. Some bedrooms are in France, some in Switzerland. And several have the frontier passing between the pillows. Bring your passport if you want to kiss the missus.See the full content of this document
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A Drink in the Hotel Bar... Shall We Go to France or Switzerland? ; Giles Milton Stays in the Jura, Slap-Bang Between the Two, for a Hiking and Cross-Country Skiing Tour
The hotel is one of many oddities in a picturesque, little-known region that's never quite made up its mind whether it's French, Swiss or both.
The Jura stretches northwards from the Swiss border a rural area of pine-forested mountains, icy lakes and isolated farming communities.The most spectacular part of the region i...See the full content of this document
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