Fricassée!
It turns out that Annecy is really awesome. It is like Lyon, but much smaller and prettier and surrounded by mountains. I ate a lot of good food—much of which I’ve already posted pictures of—saw a lot of pretty scenery, and went on a long bike ride on Saturday.
Lake Annecy is huge, and very very clean. The water is always very deep blue and you can almost always see straight to the bottom of it. Collin and I rode bikes to the end of it from Annecy, which took us about an hour.
Saturday night I had what was easily the best meal I’ve had here. It was a group dinner with the UVa program and we went to this random restauraunt. I got some sort of Fricassée, which was sort of like cheesy soup with chicken in it, and which changed my world.
Today, we rented pedal boats with a big group of people. We rode them out to the middle of the lake and went swimming. One had a slide off the back of it, which was fun.
Both Friday afternoon and today we played some soccer in the park by the lake. We also met a guy from UVa who just happened to be in Annecy staying at the same hotel as us. He played soccer with us, which was fun. Friday, we palyed with some French guys we met there.
Speaking of sports, I’ve become a huge fan of a french sport called Pétanque which is sort of like Bocce ball but played on gravel with metal balls. I might go to try and buy some balls for that tomorrow afternoon. I also want a book about wine. Those will be my first purchases in France that are not food or drink. I’ll put up some more photos of the weekend tomorrow as well!