We spend a week in a lovely old town apartment in Annecy, an idyllic lakeside town, about 100 kilometers north-east of Grenoble in Haute-Savoie department.

With the exception of one day, when we went for a whole-day hiking trip to the nearby mountains, we spent most of the daytime working on publications that we still have not finished (the same ones we worked on in Mens in September). On those days we went to early morning runs by the lake. One of the runs took us to the hillier East side of the lake to the slopes of Massif du Mont Veyrier.

This time we had better luck with the weather; it only rained one day, Monday, and it got gradually warmer and warmer towards the end of the week, reaching almost +30 degrees of Celsius on Saturday, our last day in the town. However, the apartment we stayed at was quite cold, although the heating worked a bit better than in Mens.

The hiking trip took us to Plateau de Semnoz at the altitude of 1600 meters on the West side of the lake Annecy, and to Les Cascades d’Angon near Talloires on the East side of the lake. While the former hike was practically flat with very little elevation gain, the latter involved a climb from the lake level (alt. 445m) to about 800 meters, and then down to 700 meters to the waterfall on a muddy and slippery trail.