From Nice to Annecy, June 30
So I've gotten a couple of days behind in my blog! I'm going to try to catch up this morning.
Monday, June 30, Mark and I checked out of the hotel in Nice and headed north. We took the scenic route from Nice to Digne-les-Bains (where the book Les Miserables begins). It was a 3-hour train ride through nice scenery...looked alot like southern Colorado to us. The only difference was the little provencal villages dotting the landscape. We met a lovely couple our age from New Zealand to converse with along the way. (Finally, a foreigner who was not an OBAMA fan!)
According to Rick Steves, all we had to do was catch a bus in Dignes and then another train to Grenoble in order to arrive by 6 p.m. We had a car to pick up at the train station in Grenoble, and our information said the the AVIS place closed at 8. When we arrived in Digne, the train station was closed for lunch. We waited until they opened, and then found out that the earliest we could get to Grenoble was 8 p.m.! I used my handy ACIS cell phone and called AVIS, verified that they would wait for us to get there, and we went across the street for lunch. The place where wait ate (BUFFET DE LA GARE) was primitive and we had three choices.....veal and potatoes, porc and potatoes, or beef and potatoes. I chose the veal and it was delicious! They also gave us a big pitcher of ice water!
We rode a bus for about an hour, then got on a train, then got on another train, and rode through beautiful alpine scenery for the last two hours. We did arrive in Grenoble around 8, got our car, called the hotel in Annecy to tell them that we really were coming, and started our driving adventure. Once Mark got over the initial jitters of driving in a European city, we found it to be not bad at all! We arrived at Annecy around 9:30, found our hotel and a quick bite to eat before mapping out the plan for Tuesday (Chamonix) and turning in!
Somewhere around lunch time Mark and I both started having sore throats. We kept the info to ourselves for a while. I admitted it first, and Mark said he had one, too.
So I've gotten a couple of days behind in my blog! I'm going to try to catch up this morning.
Monday, June 30, Mark and I checked out of the hotel in Nice and headed north. We took the scenic route from Nice to Digne-les-Bains (where the book Les Miserables begins). It was a 3-hour train ride through nice scenery...looked alot like southern Colorado to us. The only difference was the little provencal villages dotting the landscape. We met a lovely couple our age from New Zealand to converse with along the way. (Finally, a foreigner who was not an OBAMA fan!)
According to Rick Steves, all we had to do was catch a bus in Dignes and then another train to Grenoble in order to arrive by 6 p.m. We had a car to pick up at the train station in Grenoble, and our information said the the AVIS place closed at 8. When we arrived in Digne, the train station was closed for lunch. We waited until they opened, and then found out that the earliest we could get to Grenoble was 8 p.m.! I used my handy ACIS cell phone and called AVIS, verified that they would wait for us to get there, and we went across the street for lunch. The place where wait ate (BUFFET DE LA GARE) was primitive and we had three choices.....veal and potatoes, porc and potatoes, or beef and potatoes. I chose the veal and it was delicious! They also gave us a big pitcher of ice water!
We rode a bus for about an hour, then got on a train, then got on another train, and rode through beautiful alpine scenery for the last two hours. We did arrive in Grenoble around 8, got our car, called the hotel in Annecy to tell them that we really were coming, and started our driving adventure. Once Mark got over the initial jitters of driving in a European city, we found it to be not bad at all! We arrived at Annecy around 9:30, found our hotel and a quick bite to eat before mapping out the plan for Tuesday (Chamonix) and turning in!
Somewhere around lunch time Mark and I both started having sore throats. We kept the info to ourselves for a while. I admitted it first, and Mark said he had one, too.
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