France (part nine)

Albertville to the Italian border

 

Sunday 28 July

 

 

Moutier

 

they just had a bike race

 

La Rosiere

 

 

a real life St Bernard dog, it was a puppy!!!!

 

 

an unusual bike rack

 

 

col du petit St Bernard

 

 

anti tank (from the war)

 

France - Italy

 

 

 

 



France (part eight)

Vichy to Albertville

 

27 July

 

 

dinner in Albertville

"croute savoyarde"

Specialy of the region.

It taste like a cheese fondue but the bread

 is already in the dish.

It was very rich.

France (part seven)

Friday 26 July

 

We left my sister place at 8.45am

and drove most of the day to

Vichy a spa town

 



 

 

we went to drink the water.

It is salty, I don't like it but Claude

had 4 glasses and filled up his bottle.

 

Vichy is a very affluent town.

We took a red bus and went to see all the sights.

Then went by foot to visit some.

We are only spending 1/2 day there.



France (part six)

July 2013

 

 

We went to visit where they are making baskets

 

 

 

and then Eveline took us for a ride in the country

We went to see "La vallee des cordineaux"

Where people lives in caves

 

 



France ( part five)

July 2013

 

 

We are now going to the Loire valley

to see my other sister, brother in law

and nephews etc.....

 

visiting Chinon, there is a castle but I did

not get a good picture this visit.

 



 

I love these old houses

 

view of the vines

 

a cave de Panzoult

 

inside

 

sometimes they held function

the fireplace is huge

 

The bottle is empty Eveline!

 

Richelieu where my sister lives

this is the place where they have the market.

Richelieu is a seventeen century town with

doorways to get inside and a moat around

 



 

 

Daniel and Eveline garden

Trying to scare the birds from eating the cherries

 

Etoile

 

 

 



France (part four)

July 2013

 

 

another day we went to see Claude Aunt

 

and Madeleine,

her nephew Joel and his wife Denise

came for champagne and cake 

 

then Frank and his girlfriend drop in for cake

 

on this trip we are trying to see as many as possible

of our older relatives



France (part three)

July 2013

 

Every day somebody

or Places to see

my niece Ghislaine and Andree boy friend Remy

came for a drink and dinner

Another day we went to see our parents old house

Where they retired in the country

 

the old house

a young couple with 2 kids are living there now

 

another day, afternoon tea at my old aunt place.

We have suggested to every one that we will

come for afternoon tea as they are old and we did not

want to give them too much trouble but, they

invited more and more people

Here my cousin and god son giving me a kiss.

He came with his younger daughter, his son and his son girlfriend

 

another day my niece Fabienne came for dinner

 

boy holidays are very tiring