4th May
08:15 I’m struggling to write this as I can’t see the screen properly because of the sun, it is however creating a lovely haze over lake Geneva. I am also being cautious not to get any remnants of my “pain au chocolat” on the keyboard.
Yesterday was great, we broke camp and headed for Switzerland. It was a beautiful drive along pristine roads. We stopped off 10 minutes from the boarder for our last cup of French coffee and made a toast to the people of France who had been lovely. Crossing the boarder couldn’t have been simpler, in fact it was so simple we didn’t realise we could go and created a small, puzzled, traffic jam. A few minutes later a most majestic mountain range came into view, I won’t say that they’re the Alps in case I look daft when I’m proven wrong. We had driven around the lake for a good 15 minutes when we came to another border post. A closer inspection of our not too detailed map showed that we were back in France !! Who would have thought that the French own half of lake Geneva.
This is the first site that gives us the use of a fridge. Previously we couldn’t keep milk for tea and had to go out for coffee in the morning. I am now on my second cup of tea and much to my chagrin I’m not really enjoying it, and may pop down the road for a café crème. “Zut alors” we have only been away for a week and I’ve gone local.
Ace went in the lake yesterday. Not only did he retrieve the sticks that we threw for him but he cleared the rest that were bobbing about. His best day so far.
We have WiFi access here and later, after a leisurely lunch, we will plan a couple of strategic stops in Italy as tomorrow we make an assault on the Alps and then hot foot it across Italy in search of the Sibbilini mountains and our new home.
As an aside you have to spend a while camping till you get to appreciate how much zipping goes on. People are now rousing themselves and what with all the zipping up and zipping down I can barely hear the dawn chorus. Oh well, “ces’t la vie”