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Finally some blue sky! For most of the day, we had the best weather of the trip to date. Today is market day in Annecy, and the whole of the old town is filled with produce stands, butchers, cheese merchants, bakers, etc. We spent a good while perusing all of the vendors; sampling the local sausages, cheeses, and breads.
During our meandering, we happened upon an artist's small gallery where we bought another painting. It took a while, but we finally convinced him that, yes, we definitely wanted him to ship the painting to our house back home. Adam and Carlisle got into the action, too, and I'm sure we made him very happy this morning.
We had a very simple lunch in the lakefront park consisting of some sandwiches that we bought from a small deli. Adam had to restrain Carlisle from buying out the entire collection of an artist who had set out his work in a very high-traffic location on the main canal. Of course, we had to get some gelato, too.
Our lake cruise was super. It lasted about an hour and went almost all the way to the far end of the lake. We were all stunned by how many paragliders we could see riding the thermals. It was like a huge flock of very colorful birds.
Unfortunately, our hotel in Aix-les-Bains is prepaid, so we had to leave Annecy and make the 30 minute drive to Aix-les-Bains. It's nothing compared to Annecy, but our hotel is nice, and we had a great dinner at a restaurant in the pedestrian old-town. Of course, not wanting to break the chain of consecutive days with rain, it was raining by the time we went to bed.
I think tomorrow will be a long day as we drive down to Juan-les-Pins. It should be a pretty drive, though.
Reunited and it feels so good!
16 years ago
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