Sevrier

More rain in the night, and this morning, which meant that we were onto Plan B for our last day at Lake Annecy (Plan A involving more outdoor activity with rocks and waterfalls…) We went into Annecy one last time and had a look at the museum in the Chateau de L’Isle. It was pretty good, with exhibitions about the architecture of the city upstairs (particularly it’s 60’s regeneration – lots of cool modernism and concrete experiments amongst the medieval walls and alpine kitsch) and stuff about the buildings earlier roles as a prison and mint downstairs – all set amongst lots of very evocative thick stone walls, spiral staircases, barred windows and huge, scarred doors. We did a bit of pressie shopping and bought ourselves some nice coffee bowls and a Swiss Army knife for one particular big kid (it did make me, if anything, even more excited than my 9 year old nephew was to get his earlier in the week!), drank a very fine Café au Lait, and then drove to the nearby town of Sevrier to look at the local costumes in the EcoMusee and wander around the old lakeside cemetery.