Blogs from Annecy, Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe - page 6

A l'aplomb du sommet du triangle, les Poupaert pique-nique en agreable compagnie. Mais les goelands se sont envoles. ... read more

After we dropped my Mom off at the Paris airport, we jumped on a train and headed down to Dijon. Dijon is a sweet little town, the capital of the Burgundy region, with a lot of pride in its regional gifts; selling all sorts of yummy flavors of mustard and gingerbread, French lavender, and those little aniseed candies my cousin and I ate when we were young. The town mascot/symbol is the owl and they sold little owls all the souvenir shops, the bakeries sold owl shaped cookies, and the sidewalks had doormat-sized owl plaques indicating important sites. Our next stop was Lyon, where the town mascot/symbol is…the lion, as you can imagine. You just get a feeling in some towns, and I got it in Lyon. I loved Lyon. It’s the third largest city in ... read more

The night train to get to Annecy was actually quite nice. We slept with a bunch of people from the older generation so we all went to bed early. Since I seem to be putting in random tidbits of advice I might as well provide you all with another one, book couchettes. They are worth the extra cost!! You actually get to lie horizontally, and fall asleep. This is much better than the awkward 15 minute snooze until your neck hurts then shift, and 15 minute snooze until your back hurts and you shift again - all night long. They even give out descent bedding, but they cheap out on the pillows. Some people seem to get away with stealing pillows (cough… Joshua… cough). We arrived in Annecy at seven in the morning, which was a ... read more

Hi everyone, Well it has been a true adventure so far. The wedding in Montpellier was amazing and I even sang the Mass parts plus two solos plus prepared the wedding bouquet for Agnes to walk down the aisle... so she really put my skills to work. Cheryl was here for a week and we managed to visit Montpellier centre, Carcassonne, Avignon, Pont du Gard, Nimes, and Arles all in that first week!!! Once she left I also visited Perouges and Vienne (France) before moving on to Lyon and now Annecy. I have taken so many photos already but will pare them down for my friends before any slide shows, don't worry :). Tomorrow a loooooong day of train travel to see Luxembourg for three days before re-entering northern France for Lille-two days, then off to ... read more

I arrived in Annecy at 10am and dropped my bags off. I went straight back to the train station and bought a return bus ticket and ski pass for the ski resort "The Grand Bornand" in the French Alps, one hour from Annecy on the bus. The bus ride was very pleasant and scenic. I hired my skis from the town and headed up the mountain on the telecabines. I've only been skiing once before, and that was for three days more than four years ago, so understandably I was a little rusty. The slopes are divided into four levels of difficulty: green, blue, red and black from beginner to advanced. I took the closest green route I could find, and was doing ok, but I didn't realise that the green slope crossed a blue slope, ... read more