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Annecy Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Annecy, France
Annecy
This is a top pick! Ok this just keeps getting better. We now have yet another new favourite place... so far. Annecy is a beautiful town in a beautiful setting. The old part of town is packed with restaurants, cafés, and shops. It seems as though all of the above have an ...
Lake
This is a top pick! ... long drive towards the airport, even not taking the toll roads, so we wanted to find something else to do, and according to the book, Annecy sounded nice, and as it wasn't far from the airport, we headed on over. Annecy We parked up and had a walk into ...
Mont Blanc
... in the Alps and had a huge lake full of turquoise water, apparently due to a mineral that makes it that way. Our first day in Annecy we went to the market and bought lots of bread, meat, cheese, vegetables and a roast chicken and sat by the lake eating ...
Go jump in a lake.
Today was Jena's birthday, and of course everyone except Joel remembered. What a dickhead. Jena was very upset with him and his penance nearly lasted the whole day. Joel is not good with numbers and yes, he failed the test. We did our best to salvage the ...
Rest Day???
... a substantial lunch - local sausages in a local sauce, we returned to our hotel to find Tom ready to lead us on a tour of Lac Annecy. The beaches are incredible and Tom, Rowe and I did the complete 40 km tour. Other than some tight traffic for ...
Lake Annecy
... that later. We were glad to return to Lake Annecy having viewed it from the car window whilst on honeymoon. Great spot in France near Swiss mountains, loads of Tour de France wannabies on the roads - we tried bikes but a slightly less aerodynamic version. ...
Wine tasting and Lyon
... do much at all, because of the snow and the buses don't run very often. Next weekend they are having a venetian carnival here in Annecy, so that should be interesting. I'll talk to you all soon! Hope you all had a good Valentine's day, mine sucked. ...
Annecy a Veneza dos Alpes
Sitio maravilhoso, que não consegui apreciar devidamente devido ao meu estado de fraqueza e dores no corpo. Mas não sei se foi de baixar bastante de altitude, ou do maravilhoso bife que se comeu nesta cidade, que após o almoço ainda fiz uns valentes ...
Running Chase and Runny Cheese
... fondue and tasted divine. I'll remember to try this at home. There are many Swiss influences still apparent in Annecy as it was only claimed by France from the Swiss in the 1850's they certainly have plenty of cheese fondues and raclettes on the menus ...
Day 5
... was really disconcerting to come down what we thought was the last hill only to have to face another 200M again I have never been to Annecy nor even heard of it, but it is a pretty little medieval town which is a major tourist attraction. There are ...
Exchange Weekend no. 1 (Days 24-25)
We arrived in Annecy early Saturday afternoon. It is a very beautiful city, reminds me of Nelson back at home. We spent a few hours looking around downtown, seeing things like the ancient prison and public park, grabbing ...
My weekends past
Ok, so I haven't written for awhile. I have Internet in my apartment so I am not really budgeting my time on the computer as well because it is always on hand. Oh well, I have lot to say no, so it should be an entertaining travel log. I am pretty ...
Annecy
... was never going to be much to do in Lyon, and the weather did not promise to be great there so we took the train to Annecy. Had a walk through the centre of Lyon in daylight before we caught the bus to the train station. Went straight to the old town of ...
The Venetien Carnival
... On Saturday I saw the Venetien Carnival, which really wasn't a carnival at all. What it was was all the Italian people in Annecy dress up in these elaborate costumes and very slowly walk around the town. It was of course snowing that day, but that ...
The French Alps
The area is gorgeous. I love mountain lakes. There's a great art scene here too. Plus, the hostel has the best hostel breakfast on the planet. They even have a hot chocolate ...
Annecy and Geneva
... ! Also a nice city, but obviously much larger. Had excellent fondue for lunch, then treated ourselves to Swiss chocolate. Yum & yum. In Annecy we stayed at a youth hostel that was just out of town and up a series of steep hills, it was in a really ...
In search of the sun
... only our swimming stuff - chilly but eminently practical when you have no where to dry damp clothes! We headed south west for Annecy keeping our fingers crossed that the skies would clear but as we got closer, the skies got darker and the rain kept ...
Back to Annecy
... great reality TV at present. A pleasant flight ended in the rain at Geneva and a rental car journey of 50kms followed to Annecy. Each time I have been to Annecy the weather has been beautiful. Not so today. I hope tomorrow improves even though the ...
Fumbling My Way Through France
This is a top pick! ... thing!” or, “Wow, look at those bags!” Did I mention it was raining? And that I got lost a lot? Annecy was gorgeous and totally worth the effort it took to see it. It looked like the town from Beauty and the Beast, ...
Annecy- the Venice of France
... running through it. the “ Palais de l’isle” or old prison is the mark of Annecy and apparently one of the most photographed monuments in France. We spent the morning wandering around the streets, and stumbled upon a protest (Annecy is a ...
The streets are paved with .... Water?
... train station. Today is all about Annecy. Annecy is a city in the Rhône-Alpes region of east central France, on the shores of Lake Annecy, 22 miles south of Geneva. Some call it the Venice of France because it is full of canals that take you ...
Annecy
Auntie Norma recommended it so we came!! The cleanest lake in Europe they say, but we didn't see any fish. Tres old town - but too eraly for the famous ...
Hello again
Hi again, the weather here has been beautiful still, sunny but cold, but it still makes it seem warmer. I had my first real day of school so far, it's ok. I also took some photos of the house I'm living in, so I'll post those up. Over the weekend I ...
In Annecy
... the morning to get to Geneva. We would be there for the day and then head off to Rome on another overnight train. Our weekend in Annecy was definitely a nice beak from all our rushing around in Paris and all the rushing around we would be doing in ...
Vendange Story!
... encore une fois)( et un tour d'autobus qui passait entre les montagnes ET par dessus aussi ahah!!!) on est retourné a Annecy pour aller a Albertville le lendemain. Quel grosse marde, Albertville! La ville est laide, mais les alentours sont ...
Bon jour!
Hello everyone, I'm in France! I have been here for about 5 days now and things are looking up. the first few days were pretty hard, but now things aren't so bad. The town is beautiful and so old. I started school Wednesday and there are people from ...
Happy Thanksgiving!
... spent in Fnac, which is France's version of Best Buy, Barnes and Noble, and Ticketmaster combined. Traveling to Annecy was fun--I liked seeing a part of France that has a very different feel than Provence. French word du jour: une rengaine, which is ...