Annecy, France
The next morning we enjoyed a breakfast on the terrace basking in the sun. We decided to stay a little longer, take a walk on the lake shore and we ended up on a hydrobike on the lake, on a calm morning. After, we packed and drove to the diocese’s church that is located on the hill, unfortunately close at that time.
We drove down into the city and after a little driving in circles in order to find the way out of the city, we headed toward Albertville road with the intention to drive to Chamonix. We drove the local road, through Megeve and St Gervais, where unfortunately I did not stop, and drove into Chamonix around 3pm. The town is overseen by Mont Blanc and its other surrounding peaks. The peaks were clear but Mont Blanc and its neighbor were covered in clouds. We spend about two hours in town, with lunch at a restaurant near the Monteverde train station, sweet tasty treats in town walking its main drag.
Chamonix, France
We left around 5pm and we drove back to Switzerland, at an apparently unattended border crossing, to Marigny and further on the highway to Brigg, on a road that we already drove toward Montreaux. The highway is not finished, so you switch from completed areas to 2 lane roads. Because we wanted to drive over the famous Furkapass we did not take Simplon, that would have shoot us into Italy and back to Switzerland in Lugano, but we continued toward Feisch. The afternoon storm were in full swing and besides a beautiful double rainbow, you could see complete darkness in its back. We entered this darkness where the rain never stopped all night and after several tries for hotel in various villages we ended up in Feitsch in a beautiful rented studio in Feischalp, where we had to wake up a dog in order to have somebody out to show us the room. They pointed us a close by restaurant in the camping with good food, actually more or less the same as we had before, same prices. On the menu I saw 0.5L of wine for Ch3.10 that I thought normal in Italy but here kind of low. I ordered it just to receive a tiny glass half of it full. When I asked they told me that is not 0.5L but 0.5dL a measure that I never heard before in a restaurant. The metric system to the maximum of use on the cheapo…..At the accommodations the studio was great but we had to do some corrida fight with some flies before going to bed.
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