CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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A 276 km round trip from Saint-Aubin-Sauges - roughly 4 h 46 in the saddle. The stops in between: Segelboothafen, Old City of Berne, Rütte and back through Rütte. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 35 km this is Emmental Panorama Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Under the shallow water off Port-Conty lie the remains of villages that were built on stilts more than five thousand years ago, and you will see none of them from the shore. The site, near Saint-Aubin-Sauges on the north-western side of Lake Neuchâtel, is one of the many locations in the UNESCO listing of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps. Archaeologists have found posts, tools, pottery and remains of food preserved in the lake mud, painting a picture of Neolithic and Bronze Age communities who farmed, fished and built their houses along the water's edge.
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Port-Conty is where the day begins. Next is Segelboothafen.
Murten is the rare Swiss town where you can walk the medieval walls almost all the way round, looking down on brown tiled roofs on one side and the lake on the other. Its sailing harbour, the Segelboothafen, lies just below the old town on the shore of Lake Murten, and in the shallows here are the remains of prehistoric pile dwellings, one of the Swiss components of the transnational World Heritage Site of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps. Nothing shows above the water, but the lakeshore has been a place to live for thousands of years.
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Segelboothafen comes up about 36 km into the recorded legs. Next is Old City of Berne.
Bern does not shout. The Swiss capital sits on a sandstone spur in a tight loop of the green Aare, with six kilometres of arcaded streets that let you walk the whole old town in the rain without getting wet. It was founded in 1191 by Duke Berthold V of Zähringen, and legend says he named it after the first animal he killed hunting nearby, a bear. The bears have been the town's mascots ever since, and a few still live in the BärenPark down by the river at the end of the Nydeggbrücke.
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about 71 km into the recorded legs you reach Old City of Berne. Next is Rütte.
Rütte sits on the gentle southern slope above Lake Biel, a scatter of farms and orchards between the village of Bellmund and the lakeshore, with the long blue ridge of the Jura filling the view across the water. Nidau and the city of Biel are a few minutes away, yet up here it feels thoroughly rural: cows, cherry trees, a sharp smell of cut grass in early summer and the clank of a tractor somewhere below.
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Rütte, about halfway.
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Read the complete Old City of Berne write-up.
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Old City of Berne sits at 138 km, about halfway. Next is back through Rütte.
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Read the complete Rütte write-up.
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back through Rütte comes up about 173 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Old City of Berne.
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Read the complete Old City of Berne write-up.
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about 207 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Old City of Berne. Next is back through Segelboothafen.
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Read the complete Segelboothafen write-up.
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back through Segelboothafen, late in the day. Next is Port-Conty.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Port-Conty write-up.
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The route ends here after 276 km.
Port-Conty → Segelboothafen is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segelboothafen → Old City of Berne is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Old City of Berne → Rütte is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rütte → Old City of Berne is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Old City of Berne → back through Rütte is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Rütte → back through Old City of Berne is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Old City of Berne → back through Segelboothafen is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segelboothafen → Port-Conty is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.