Saturday, June 14, 2008

Monique in Annecy now

Monique is now in Annecy, her home town, and also a place where we shared a lakeside apartment with her for the month of June, 1976. It was a famous drought in Europe so we had wonderful weather and could swim in the lake right from the beginning of June which isn't that usual since Lac d'Annecy is in the Alpes. She has view room from this hotel and I see the bar opens at 7am! Only in France...

It brings back great memories and I especially remember all the delicacies Monique introduced us to especially the Reblochon cheese that was very well aged to being with but Monique insisted on leaving it out of the fridge for several days to age even more. It was about to walk away when we were finally allowed to taste...quite a smell but wonderful flavour.

Every morning we woke to this wonderful view and the mist coming off the lake. We didn't have a car so I used Monique's old bicycle to cycle to the local bakery a few kilometres away to get croissants and bread. It was great cycling at that time in the morning except we didn't have any tools to adjust the bike seat up so it was a rather bow legged cycle I had to do since Monique is quite a bit shorter than me!

I see the highs for temp are around 20 C until later this week when it starts to get really hot. That will please Monique as she doesn't like it too hot.


Annecy HOTEL ** Beauregard sevrier 45 rooms panoramic view over the lake of Annecy - France - inter-hotel