13. More Eats! SEPTEMBER 30

Just a quick note tonight, it’s very late (for us) here. 

Class today was wonderful and challenging, again. After the morning work, we ate lunch with two friends at an amazingly tasty health-food oriented restaurant “The Dip”. It’s always crowded inside and out when we’ve walked by in the past, but today was welcoming and open…I forget what exactly we ordered, except we got a side of pita bread, but it was all organic, delicious, and surprisingly inexpensive! We’ll go back later.




Just behind me in this photo is the copse of trees with a whole settlement of homeless individuals, living rough


this huge open space is filled with merchants and clothing wares on every Market Day

Lynn and her advanced class attended the showing of a 30 year-old French film we remembered from way back then, "The Dinner Game". Apparently it didn’t age well, the humor and poignancy somehow being lost now. While she was working on her education, I read my book, and took a long walk through streets of old Annecy looking for places I’d not explored before. Found a steep inclined street with humble residences with slanty entrance doors, then an ancient wall at one end of the old town. I followed it until there was a small opening with stairs leading down into a wooded area. Climbing down, I found myself in a well-hidden ramshackle collection of tents, tarps, plastic furniture and other stuff…it is apparently the place where a large number of homeless folks live. I couldn’t take photos, it seemed an imposition on their privacy. Anyhow, it’s amazing to me that the homeless situation seems to exist everywhere, and each society deals with it differently. More on that subject later. 


Found a bike shop at the bottom of the path where pavement and the regular part of the city resumed. Based on that shop’s directions, I walked another mile or so to find a better bike shop, and bought a couple of air cartridges for my bike tire repair stash. Made it home in time to connect with Lynn, and relax here awhile, before another eating event!

Stellar group from our hotel!




Late this evening we met with all our "senior" French classmates at the “Vif Restaurant” in Annecy’s old town, just minutes from our hotel. The whole rear of the restaurant was turned over to us, and we spent the next two and a half hours or so talking, munching a huge variety of foods brought out for us to sample, and enjoying the house wines. Our fellow students are an interesting group, really fun to get to know individually. The time and conversation went quickly, thus I’m writing this stuff very late after we walked home. 

Bonne Nuit! 

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