Weekend in Annecy

Last week Tijana asked me if I want to hang along to Annecy with Remo, Emily and Lewis so the little kid Fred got all excited once more during his 23 years of living "There's a lake! We can swim!" and he said "I'm IN!"

So the day finally sailed to the port last Saturday. What everyday-car was chosen for this little holiday trip then? According to Remo, the boring car, an Audi A4 3.2 liter V6 cabriolet (convertible). Definitely my thoughts too; the boring car. With a nice cruising speed of 'whatever' we got to Annecy in a flash, threw our bags in the hotel and went for a swim ...or a dip ..or a get-in-and-fly-out. It's epic to swim with snowy mountains in the background. And yes it was COLD and don't come whining that "you shouldn't care, you're Finnish". I did notice! You all know how you show to others the temperature with your thumb and index finger resembling ..well you know. In this case there's no space between those fingers. It sure was refreshing though.

Later on we had a hunt for THE restaurant and after settling down in one of the places with actual space I had a tartar steak. Yes, raw minced meat. Although it was good, you didn't really understand whether you were hungry later or not. Luckily the old part of Annecy is driven by ice cream factories. Which means after a full stomach of ice cream we went to bed quite early, had a good night sleep and took the car around the lake with the roof down the next day. This word came already once during this entry and it's coming again right here: EPIC! Driving with a convertible makes you hungry, for more sure, but I mean Food Hungry. So we had a bite at a local restaurant, and all of a sudden the master chef Marc Veyrat came and said "Bonjour!" For you who doesn't know, he's the first chef to have achieved full points (20/20) of the Gault-Millau guide (for both of his restaurants) and has achieved twice three Michelin stars. Impressive!

An Awesome Team on an Awesome Weekend in an Awesome Place. Can it get more Awesome? Emily, Tijana and Remo kept saying the place looks like Switzerland. So probably it will get more awesome, let's just head to Lugano! Dreams aside, we had to take the train back because Remo had to head back with the car to his office in Switzerland. Later on we had a  d e l i c i o u s  dinner, but that's another story! In-joy les photos!