Saturday, September 23, 2006

A bike excursion-September 22, 2006

It was a beautiful sunny Friday morning and Steve and I decided to rent deux velos, or bicycles for the day. Steve did some research on "Anglo Info"--an English website that lists all the events going on (and around) Geneva. We figured we should ride
our bikes into the country side and stop by a local market and load up on some fresh produce. Our destination for the day--Collogne-Bellerive. We hopped on our bikes and we were off.


Here we are on our bikes:





As you can see we are next to a vineyard...and of course Steve hopped off his bike to snatch a few grapes off the vine. Delicious!

We made it to the market, but we were still energized. We decided to ride to the end of the Swiss border to the small town, Hermance.




Here is Hermance. This top picture is of the fortress that still remains. The below picture illustrates the wealth of the neighborhood (and how lucky these people are to have such a lovely view of Lac Leman and the Juras).



After riding through Hermance, we headed back to the market. There I practiced my french and bought us our groceries for the week.

For more pictures, check out: http://homepage.mac.com/stephen.schwartz/Europe/PhotoAlbum14.html

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

So very beautiful! What agreat idea to rent bikes! Love, mom