Annecy & Jura

5/18/2012

The beautiful old town of Annecy

As the month of May in

France

is filled with days off, we had yet another long weekend ahead of us. This time we were headed for a little spring timeout starting in Annecy- a beautiful town in the northern Alps in Haute-Savoie department. Due to its superb location next to the Lake Annecy and the mountains, it’s a very wealthy town and popular amongst tourists. You can do anything from water sports to mountaineering and still have a night out in town and eat well in one of its many fantastic restaurants. We got there with a train (takes about 3.5hrs from Paris), and met up with Denis’ parents who had driven up from Briancon. The plan was to spend some time in Annecy first, then drive around the Jura region checking out places like out The Hersisson Falls, and surely do some local cheese & wine tasting while there. For the last but not the least would be a stop-over in one of most prestigious wine regions of France- Burgundy (read about it here).

We ended up having an excellent little road-trip that took us through green rural mountain roads in Jura all the way to the capital of Burgundy wines - Beaune. Here's a little picture summary of our long weekend!