Les Saints Peres Chateaux & Hotesl De France Montagnole

Annecy fue nuestro primer destino después de recoger el coche alquilado en el aeropuerto de Saint-Exupéry, Lyon. ( Y que coche... habíamos alquilado un triste Laguna, y nos encontramos con aquel pepinaco, como dijo Álvaro ).

Annecy es una ciudad de postal, imprescindible, que nos sirvió para abrir ...

... mentioned Marilys and Gerd in Nienburg Wesser. No surprise, she was born and brought up in Nienburg and intended being buried there!. General sight-seeing Wednesday.

30.07.09 Dompierre des Ormes N46 21'48.5" E4 28'34.8"
A bit of an out-of-the-way place but a bar within walking distance, a feature one of us likes very much. Our gas bottle ran out today having lasted all of 14 days. This has decided us to stay in France ...

Ok so I am officially the worst blogger ever! Sorry I haven't kept up with this! At least when I get back all my stories will be brand new and no one will have ever heard them! Well today I get my test results back from my last exam. Then tomorrow is the last day of classes! Me and a few other students from CMU are going to go get a HUGE ice cream sundae to celebrate the end of classes! Then on Thursday I will leave for Lyon, France ...

Back in Lyon

Blog entries have been difficult. We've been very busy and the internet doesn't always work here.
We had a great couple of days watching the Tour de France. Both days we were able to get quite close to the riders and I took a lot of neat photos. Here is a small sampling. Many more to come.
Our week riding in the Alps was amazing. It really ...

I always wanted to see a stage in The Tour the France. A couple of years ago they had a Stage ending in Ghent. A few km. from my home. But What do you see? In a few seconds a peloton passes and that's it. So I decided to combine two loves at once. My ...

... slightly less aerodynamic version. All fine on the way to Anecy town but screaming child on return journey - Stu's legs were a blur...

Had a short wakeboard - yes Stu was gutted (shouldn't go mad with a scalpel then..) and yes it was a great spot..Stu made up for it by leaping of a mountain paragliding..mad fool..Lauren kept asking where "Daddy had gone.."..She is still trottin out the "euro poof pants" Un ...

... public parklands that were fully manicured, but the one we stopped at for lunch was managed as a wild park. I don't know the technical term for this, but I think the idea is to allow some longer shrub and grass growth in particular seasons. This allows sites for birds to do, whatever they do in the long grass, and I guess also to allow wild native annual plants to flower and ...

... out more.

Back at La Saliere, our hosts Chrystelle and Eric, were putting on a table d’hote this evening. This is an evening meal including the family, for ourselves and 2 other couples staying at the accommodation. It was a good meal and they both go to considerable effort to make the evening asuccess. Unfortunately, tonight, the young daughter fell off her chair and cut her eyebrow from the nasty fall. This was ...

... road from Christine's which has a ping pong table in it. As the licence is until 3am every so often and when the door is opened for someone to go in or come out the owner says "Shhhhhhh" and the crowd quietens down. The later it got and the more we had to drink, the easier it got for me to speak French and Christine's friends to speak English.

... w**e people working on some project in town. Th**e was no choice of menu in the hotel restaurant and we ate the standard meal provided to the work**s. It was a fairly cheap three-course meal (including a cheese platt**) and we ended the evening stuffed. Before retiring we repacked our bags in preparation for the next day's dropping off of the car. DAY 32 WED Our last day with the car. We drove all the way to the outskirts of Lyon through the picturesque ...