At Annecy

With one week to go before we leave for Norway, we thought we'd get in trim with a sauna in the French Alps - if today is an indicator, the daily temperature is going to be in the mid-30's with azure blue skies and plenty of Factor 50. This will  compensate nicely for temperatures of 10-15 degrees and lowe hanging cloud in Norway. We are staying in the Hotel Allobrogues near the centre of town.  I've been for a stroll while the others napped (we were up at 04:30). The old town is just a few hundred metres away and the Saturday market stalls are up - heavily pedestrianised, it reminds me of a cross between Sarlat, Venice, and the old centre of Stockholm. Very glad we chose to book rooms here in the centre with parking en suite, because the town is a maze of narrow one way streets. It does turn out to be a lovely place to stroll around and window shop in though.