Whilst Alex popped back to the UK for a few days last week, I headed north to Baden in Switzerland to visit some friends - Vicky, Steve and Felix. I had a lovely time chilling out with them, seeing their new house being built and getting crafty - Vicky and I taught ourselves to put a zip in a lined purse, we were pretty impressed with ourselves.
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| Felix and Vicky in the gallery of their new house |
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| On route to Baldegg with Vicky and Felix |
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| Who needs toys? Felix enjoying the contents of my wash bag. |
So after a few chilled out days, I then headed south again to France, swinging by Geneva airport to collect Alex on route.
We have settled back in to our Alpine Hideaway and continued some craft making, as well as some wood ordering. I was again impressed with myself when I managed to order the correct amount of wood, the correct size and to the correct address...all in French, to someone on the phone who didn't speak any English. My French must be improving...
On Friday we had another guest from the UK arrive. Cameron flew in to Lyon and then drove himself to meet us here in La Chambre. Alex and I (mainly Alex) cooked him up a vegan feast, and even made him some home-made hummus (his fave vegan treat) to welcome him to France (sadly he couldn't have the cheese welcome Joseph had due to the dairy). Shortly after we'd fed him, we whisked him outside to help us load the wood in to the storage below...we're nice like that.
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| Cam and his vegan treats |
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| The wood piled up for the winter... |
We took a short drive up to St. Francois, our closest ski resort. It doesn't open for another month and there wasn't much snow up there, but we had a nice time walking around and found a lovely bench overlooking the mountains on which to eat our packed lunch!
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| View from St. Francois |
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| Cameron and Alex at St. Francois |
Lake Annecy is about an hour away from us, and is another great spot. We ventured to Talloires along the north side of the lake and soaked up the views...which included a slide on the lake (even though it was warm, it wasn't quite warm enough to tempt me to have a go).
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| Fancy a go? Lake Annecy. |
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| View of Lake Annecy from Talloires |
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| Lake Annecy |
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| Talloires |
Annecy is also a lovely City, with cobbled streets which go over a river and lots of cute little shops. Alex and I noticed there is a christmas market there so are hoping to go back for that before we leave on our next leg of the journey.
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| Annecy |
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| Alex and Cameron |
Camerons trip has just been a short one and he leaves us again first thing in the morning, it's been fun living like a vegan for the weekend. Today we had a little explore of St. Avre and found a cool church with fake stones painted on it that is situated on a roundabout and enjoyed a little stroll around the village.
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| St. Avre |
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| St. Avre |
We have another 2 weeks here with lots more to see and do, before we head south west towards the Pyrenees for our final location en France.
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