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Europe » France » Rhône-Alpes » Saint-Jorioz June 1st 2011

It rained all night long. Pitter patter and at times, hammer hammer, on the roof of the Tandy and when it finally stopped at 10am we realised it had been raining non-stop for 40 hours. Worse, for those on the mountains though, where the rain turned to snow. Not surprising then that it was pretty chilly all day, exactly as forecast, the temperature barely made double figures. No surprise either, therefore, that we decided to forgo a swim in the tempting campsite swimming pool. We didn’t rush to get up but waited until the rain eventually fizzled to a stop. We found our way to the lake, across the road from the campsite and down a couple of roads, and went for a walk along it. Would be really beautiful with a blue sky and white ... read more
Lake Annecy under a cloud
Lake Annecy
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Europe » France » Rhône-Alpes » Saint-Jorioz May 31st 2011

Today’s travel blog is brief. We packed up the Tandy and drove along a fantastically scenic route through the Alps until we came to our campsite alongside beautiful Lake Annecy at St Jorioz. We believe that to be true but were unable to verify the beauty of anything as it rained all day, persistently and very hard without a single break. We have spent the last few hours checking the weather forecasts to see if we should move on elsewhere but it seems that whichever direction we go we are going to be under the very big cloud which is covering this area of France for the next several days at least. Good thing we have brought plenty of books. Shame it is too cold to use the pool as the campsite has two and I ... read more




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