Belle of the Ball-Annecy

The final stop on our New Years Travels was to the beautiful and charming French city of Annecy. Annecy has a very picturesque and quaint old town. The town features a series of canals, filled with swans and in the summer lined with flowers. We had to do without the flowers... but instead were treated with beautiful and majestic snow capped mountains. Annecy is definitely a must-see if you are in eastern France or the Alps.







Annecy's downtown was so pretty that it was hard to stop taking pictures!





We left the downtown area for a bit and hiked up to a castle above the city. After looking at the castle, we looked down upon Annecy's rooftops.







After getting our fill of downtown we went down to the lake to try to get some pictures of the mountains. The first afternoon it was fairly overcast, but the lake was still beautiful.







The next morning the sky opened up quite a bit and we were able to get some better shots of the mountains and the lake.











And no trip to Annecy would be complete without a couple pictures of swans. This one swam up just as the morning sunlight started hitting the lake



And that is all she wrote. Finally the end of our vacation pictures. The last day of our vacation only involved sitting on trains, in train stations or gross bus stations so I didn't take any pictures! This was our last major trip before I'll be going home on February 20th. Matt has vacation time around then, so we are planning on going to Paris for 3 days before I fly out. There are several sites including Chartes Cathedral and Versaille that I have to make sure I see before leaving France. I feel fortunate for all the interesting and beautiful places I've seen so far and I'm looking forward to seeing Paris again.