“As someone who loves nature and landscapes, the Jura has offered me and still offers me everything I aspire to.” Danielle Fell grew up and lived in the small principality of Luxembourg, while always having had a special connection with the environment. If the modernity and advantages of the Luxembourg city have long been part of her daily life, at a given moment she felt the need to reconnect with simpler and more authentic values.
Far from noise and stress
“I had known the Jura for a long time because we came to visit part of my family who lived near Poligny. Then my father chose to settle there as well.” His crush on this department gradually transformed, and his choice to live there gradually took root in his mind. “I was looking for a place where I could feel in harmony with the environment, where I could fully practice my passion sport, horse riding. I wanted a place where the noise and daily stress did not take over the beauty and calm of nature.”
The Jura at your fingertips
Leaving Luxembourg to join the commune of Pont-de-Poitte at the end of December 1995, Danielle found a daily life punctuated by the seasons, local markets, meetings with locals, long walks on horseback or with her dog along the lakes or forests. In 1997, she was recruited to the Jura Departmental Tourism Committee, as a management assistant, and was assigned to work with campsites, lodges or on the Jura du Grand Huit. “I sometimes knew the Jura better than the Jurassians,” she likes to joke.
Travel as an international judge
Retired since 2020, Danielle now lives in her house in Clairvaux-les-Lacs. She can devote herself full-time to her passion, endurance riding. She has today left the competition that she practiced for a long time, to become a level 4 international judge. In this context, she regularly goes abroad, Dubai, Spain, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, to judge competitions or international championships. It also has other international missions to protect horses. An activity enthusiast, Danielle also practices dancing several times a week, gymnastics, and volunteers in several associations. Since September, she has also become the president of the departmental federation EPGV (Voluntary physical education gym). By choosing the Jura as a homeland, Danielle Fell found not only a place to live, but also a true philosophy and an art of living, which correspond to the deep meaning that she wanted to give to her existence.
