Annecy

I really didn't have much planned for the easter weekend, but on my way back from climbing good friday I ran into team Language Assistant.  They were planning a trip to Annecy the day after and asked if I wanted to join them, and so I did.

Snowmelt and rain makes for a lot of water..

Annecy is apparently known as "the Venice of the Alpes" (they've got three channels) and is situated next to Lac d'Annecy about an hour  north-east of Grenoble.

Me and one of the channels

Three channels doesn't sound like that much and to be honest, the old city us pretty small, but it was super cute! With the mountains and the lake I reckon it's a pretty nice place to visit during the summer. And judging from all the ice-cream shops it's a pretty popular place to visit as well.

Nyssa and I in front of Le Palais de l'Isle

It was a rainy day but that didn't stop us from having an awesome time. One of the highlights being lunch where various french specialities were on the menu. We tried Raclette, fondue, tartiflette, cruziflette,  the common denominator being cheese :)

Marya trying out the Raclette

We also found this knife shop with a slightly skewed door...

it's the door not us :)

Most of the day was spent like this, strolling around town looking at cute little canals and picturesque houses.

By the way, this is what I want for easter next year :)

 À Bientôt!

Easter

If you've read my earlier posts you'll know that I've had a little mix up with my ski equipment. Namely having brought with me skies and boots that doesn't go together. But my aunt has now sent me my other boots, and with them, påskemarsipan!!! TUSEN TAKK !

They didn't last very long though...
One of them is already opened :P

As påskemarsipan is a safe sign that spring is approaching I have gone to the step of buying new summer shoes. The last ones got tossed around the Tous Saints vacation..

They smell like cherries! It's cool, but kind of weird ...

And with all my footwear problems sorted I decided to finally take a day off to go and see Vicky in Les Deux Alpes! Which also goes well with the norvegian easter traditions ;)

Me in front of the underground téléferico that brings you up on the glacier.
Nice if you're to lazy to get the T-bar, or if it's just windy...

At the top of the glacier the view is pretty awesome so we had a tourist moment...

I'd say that's profile picture material...

Then me, a bit further down the mountain:)

alpes...

I can really recommend a midweek ski trip at the end of the season. The snow was great and from time to time we almost had the impression of having the whole place to our selves.

Lunch, 2 x croziflette.  Yummy!

After lunch we kept on skiing for a couple of hours before heading down to the valley just in time for a crêpe before getting on the bus. Vicky went for lemon&sugar and I had a crème de marron. One buss and a train ride later I was back in Valance ready for one day of work followed by a long weekend. Can't complain!

À Bientôt!

Catching up

The Polygone during The Challenge

I've really been horrible at this lately! So there's a bit of catching up to do! Not sure if I'll get it all in one post though.... But anyway, let's start with the weekend of the Challenge.  The challenge being a competition between the students of Valence. Each school has to choose a theme and construct a bar and a float (for the parade).  Our theme was batman!!

Me and all the Esisariens spent the weekend dressed as Batman :D

Don't seem to have gotten a good photo of our bar... But it was inspired by the bat-cave and the Wayne manor. And had all the fancy stuff you would expect engineering students to come up with

Flashing lights is a must, also in france

The weekend really kicked off Saturday morning when the flats were paraded through town.  Funnily enough I'm also lacking photos of the float....

Centre ville...

Photo opportunity at champs de mars  

Me and my team mates from the Projet Industiel
Yes, we had one Robin

After the parade I had my first encounter with a dish the french call taco. It is as far from norwegian tacos as I imagine the norwegian tacos is from the Mexican one. But it was still quite enjoyable :)

Not really sure what is in there....

I hope you've noticed the purple glasses that people are carrying with them at all times. This seem to be a common thing at festivals here, buy a glass and drink for "free".  The rest of the weekend was then spent watching sports and games, and drinking punch of variable quality...  All good stories have a happy ending and I am proud to let you know that late sunday night it was announced that ESISAR had won the 28 challenge d'étudiants!! This was lucky for me because if the school hasn't won the challenge once during your studies there, you haven't really graduated...  Well that's it for now, I'll see if I can get out some more updates asap, I'm lagging a bit...

À Bientôt!