Annecy

"On y va, y'all!" -- Geoffrey

Today we woke up early (for a Sunday) and met the group to go on our day trip to Annecy. It took around an hour and a half to get there from Grenoble.

Every Sunday morning in Annecy they have a market in the street, with cheese, fruit, clothes, cheese, bread, jewelry, cheese, trinkets, more cheese, etc. I bought some sweet Christmas presents for 5€.


We then went to a restaurant where we ate Raclette, which is a type of cheese but also apparently a whole meal thing. It wasn't explained to us very well, so I'm still kind of unsure. But basically, we had a bowl of potatoes and a huge wheel of cheese stuck on a thing that melted part of it at a time, which then was supposed to be scraped onto your plate of potatoes. It was absolutely delicious, but very time consuming, and at the end I was still a little hungry.

After the meal (which of course took 2 hours), we walked up to a castle which was used as a barracks from the 1700s until the end of WWI. From there we had some terrific views of Annecy. Unfortunately, my camera was on the wrong setting, so my pictures are all weird, grainy and black and white.

After this, we had a boat tour of the lake, which was really nice. The place is absolutely beautiful, and the lake is huge. It was great.

I'm sorry this entry is pretty short, but not much happened, I just took a bunch of pictures, which you can find here.