Today begins with awalk around our local village of Talloires before going on to explore Annecy. First our guide walks us around the best of this 'Venice of France' with its traditional open air market today. Afterwards some take to the lake itself but we linger in the market and its environs before taking a coffee at the Best Western Hotel Carlton at the lake side (Travel Editions other base for this holiday). We climb up to the Visitation Basilica above the town, the pilgrimage centre in honour of Francois de Sales and Jane de Chantal, whose remains are there. Also next door is the foundation monastery of the world wide visitation order. Either on the way in or the way back we complete a full circuit of the lake and enjoy the para gliding descents above and around us. Dinner this evening includes a 70th birthday party and concludes with a giant desert cake alight with fireworks.
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