My week with anna

This past week I spent with my second cousin.  It was her last week of school, but there weren't really any classes.  In two we went for ice cream and in one we had a potluck breakfast.  Also, multiple times we went to the lake by bike, which was very nice!  Now I'm with the family from anna, and tomorrow we go to a little swiss chalet where there will not be power, so therefor no internet... so no ports until thursday!

Tour clip

Again, I'm not sure who this is, someone near the beginning, but you can see the speed, and how close we were!

Thursday tour de France in Annecy!!!

On thursday we traveled to Annecy very early.  We left the train station on a bus at around 6:30 in the morning!  When we got there at about 8:30 we walked to the lake and scoped out a place for Julia to buy a t-shirt for her brother.  We then found a place to plop and waited.  Before the riders came there was the Caravane, which was like a little parade of advertisers throwing free stuff.  We did get some good things though, including water, newspapers, and a glasses cleaning cloth.  The second picture is Julia wearing her free hat holding up her free comic.  The third picture of course is a rider, not sure who, zooming past.  And boy were they fast! Especially the last ones (they go in order from last place to first). The other pictures are from beautiful Annecy!!

Guignol puppet show

here's a clip from the puppet show:

Wednesday with our Lyon City card

Wednesday in Lyon was quite productive!! We got a Lyon City card and tried to make the most of everything that was offered.  Included in the card that we did were: riding public transit, Basilica and museum of religious art, Lumiére museum (brothers who fathered early cinematography), Museum of Modern art, Guignol puppet show (native puppet form to Lyon), boat tour down the river, and then we just walked around a little and also went to a market.  As you can see, it was quite the busy day!!

Tuesday in Lyon

On tuesday we had a full day in Lyon.  We woke up and had breakfast in the hostel then walked around.  We found a little park where we decided to take a nap. After that we walked around some more, exploring, and then went back to the hostel so that I could look up some things to do in Lyon.  We found a nice street to walk down, a pedestrian only street, where we also ate supper.  Also on our walk we found the tourist office where we found what to do the next day... the Lyon city card...

The past few days

The past few days we have done a lot!! In Lyon we walked around the first day and the second day we bought a day pass.  We made the most of it by going to many museums and a boat tour, all included in the one pass!  Then today we took the train to Geneva where we will be until sunday when Julia goes back home and I go back to Germany.  The internet at this hostel is charged by the time, so I'm going to keep these next few posts short, and then elaborate later.