Annecy day out

Well the sun was shining and a pleasant 14 degrees Centigrade as we left the Hotel in a taxi to go downtown, as they say, after having experienced the Mercure buffet breakfast. Noel was bit baffled by the hi-tech toaster which literally takes the bread from the tow and slowly draws it down inside in little cave but then it took nearly four minutes to toast one slice of bread, amazingly slow. If he wants toast tomorrow morning he will have to get up extra early.
We arrived outside the ‘Marie’ and then walked down the dockside and had a look at the water tour boats and then considered going on the local bus tour but first a walk along all the historic all streets which many years ago a group of cargo agents and wives as guest of Swiss Air took us skiing and then a day trip to to Annecy with the idea you can spend five hours or so in the town. So we duly arrived by coach and after having the left the coach park and walked about three hundred metres when somebody suggested that a glass of something would not go amiss, actually what followed was an enjoyable disaster. So we went in a local bar where we spent about three hours and realised we needed to eat and crossed the road to a restaurant that had been suggested and then had a long lunch which ended when it was mentioned the coach would be leaving in ten minutes. We all rushed back to the coach and some of the others in the tour who had walking tours of the city, lake tours and visit to various places of interest but our small group had not seen anything except the inside of many empty wine bottles. So Jen and I were determined to see more and also have a good lunch.

We wandered through the old town taking photos and finally stopped at a place for lunch where the food was great and we had a beer and bottle of red wine before continuing our walk. We did consider again going on the tour bus but when looking where it went we realised we had by walking seen the best parts  of Annecy in our earlier walk and so called an Uber to take us back to the Hotel.
In the evening Noel continued uploading photos of the day but with such a slow internet speed, but its free!!!., it took hours.
Tomorrow we head for a place called Colmar where we spend two nights and hope the weather will be as nice as it was today. We  are also planning our route back to the Uk from Colmar and will follow the Tour de France route if at all possible but subject to the weather which the forecast is not looking to great at the moment as there have been bad storms in the US of A which have flown over the Atlantic and are heading our way.