Day 11

Thursday 28 May 2009

We had decided to move on today but were undecided if our destination would be Italy or France. We also wanted to go up the cable car to the Schilthorn mountain but after a promising outlook on the live webcam first thing in the morning as we made sandwiches and packed up the caravan ready to go the clouds had crept in and although the resaurant was clear the view all around was white. Katie was very dissapointed but there is no accounting for the weather. Again we said goodbye to some people we had got to know on the site and set off for our next destination Lake Geneva or Lac Leman as the locals call it in France. The journey was clear apart from the last 15 miles which took us alongside the lake and through lakeside villages including Evian and the bottling factory.
Apologies for the bad photo it was taken through Dave's arms whilst driving alongside the lake!! Lake Geneva is the second largest freshwater lake in central europe and is 60% Suiss and 40% French. We drove through the border through a little village very close to the lake itself and then drove for a further 45 mins as we went most of the 45 mile length of the lake. We had chosed one of the two campsites in a book we have got that gives us discounted rates. We discovered on talking to the locals that we had chosen well with our pitch looking out directly over the lake through the only sandy beach there is around the whole lake!!! The kids as you can imagine were very pleased and were keen to explore straight away. As you can see from the photos the para surfers (is that what they are called?) were out in force.