looking back over Lake Annecy
14/07/10 12:51 Categorised as: Holidays | Summer 2010
we’ve no pics bearing this date, so, before moving on, here’s few shots by way of an Annecy retrospective
(as usual, click on image to enlarge)
l’Église de Sevrier at Sevrier 
the campsite at Doussard
jetty at the campsite 
sailing back from Annecy:
the Château at Duingt, again
fellow passengers 
Ruth in Annecy 
street-market in DuingtThat’s it for the Alps for this year, then.
Will we be back??
Hope so, but it would be good to visit such a dramatically beautiful part of the world outside the main tourist season. Our memories for now are of a beautiful, but bustling, overcrowded and resortified area, awash with tourists and traffic.
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day of the deux Lacs : #2 : Annecy
11/07/10 19:27 Categorised as: Holidays | Summer 2010
les Francais aiment leur lacs
and this one was busy.
as were the campsites - les Néerlandais aiment aussi les lacs francais, it seems
the next shot - cropped from the last - gives some idea of the aerial congestion we saw over Lac d’Annecy
up the Lac to Annecy
13/07/10 10:14 Categorised as: Holidays | Summer 2010
took a boat - “La Belle Étoile” - from its landing-place just by the campsite
up the lac to Annecy, stopping along the way at a number of the small lakeside towns and villages...
most of which seem to harbour at least one castle...
Annecy is a busy town, its streets bustling with meandering tourists and purposeful locals. Main photo opportunity postcard-style is at the island prison, just off the harbour, in the town’s ...wait for it... ”petite Venise” in this case aka “la Venise des Alpes”. In this shot Jim waves to the camera, in true seaside snapshot pose...
Plenty of good lunch places, but Jim had tp pick the naff bar next to one of the best. Ho hum...
Once again, on the return sail, the skies above the lake filled up with paragliders
and Duingt emerged from the haze, framed by the mountains to the south of the lake
Later that night, in the campsite bar, after a meal of Cassoulet de Castelnaudry cooked on our bluet stove (straight from the tin), the chef relaxes
into the Mountains
12/07/10 10:13 Categorised as: Holidays | Summer 2010
up in the hills above the eastern shores of Lac d’Annecy
the scenery and the architecture are Alpine
and we dined on local cheeses (Raclette and Tomme de Montagne are memorable) and salade de chèvre at the Bar Le Chamois, near Montmin
with a view to la Tournette (2351m / 7713ft), the highest peak in this part of Haute-Savoie
(click here for our location on Multimap - the red circle exactly corresponds to the camera position in pic 2 above)
day of the deux Lacs : #1 : Nantua
11/07/10 10:11 Categorised as: Holidays | Summer 2010
we had no real idea what to expect of Nantua
and had not allowed any time to spend there. Just passing through on the way to Lake Annecy. The Rough Guide to France doesn’t even mention Nantua
...not its carnival...
... nor even its Lac...
the Lac de Nantua, cradled in its limestone cliffs, 1500 ft above sea level
Nice place. We will return!
And funny books those Rough Guides! More Nantua info here