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Having the Alps right by its side is a hard standard to compare with for The Jura Mountains, as by Swiss standards it is barely considered as a mountain. Their revolving timbered marshland that goes on for about 225 miles alon the Swiss-French border northeast from Geneva and are softer than their Alpine in every way. 

Although the Jura has a shortness in amazing icy magnificence, it is balanced by a calm brightness that is available to anyone eager to wander between them: Not a hike, yet you can do that in the Jura, also, but a sweat-less walk on a well-marked course. A few years ago, on a warm day, my wife Heidi, and I acquired our young daughter on a seven-mile hike from Avenches to Murten, two villages close to the Jura slopes. The landscape was appropriate for us. The farmers’ route was stroller-friendly, and we roamed beside countless lands of flowering seeds, through muddy forests and besides to an 11^th century chapel built from stones the Romans had cut. On the border dividing threes swiss cantons the languages mix like kirsch in a fondue: a rue melts into a strasse that ends at a table with brats and bières.

THE NEW YORK TIMES. “Europe, in 9 Walks”. April 19^th 2013. April 24^th 2013. 

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Spring-Break experience

During Spring break my friends and I booked at Big Bear and went there. Even though it isn't in an another state, they do have a completely different life style. It's more of an outdoor place, people rarely stay indoor over there. When you're there you just feel rejuvenated. As for the weather it is much colder than here. I have also noticed that the native residents over there don't have much interest in the internet or even electronics for that matter. You rarely can get service on your phone, and that was frustrating to me, but it was totally fine with the natives. And when entering a starbucks over there you don't see someone having their laptop or iPad with them, not like here. I'm sure that there are much more differences but those are the ones that stood out from my point of view.