Savoie (73) and Haute-Savoie (74)

The Aiguille du Midi (3,842 m / 12,605 ft) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif. It can can be directly accessed by cable car from Chamonix. It receives half a million visits a year.

..met an arguing german couple, when I entered. Strange vibrations. Walked upstairs. 12 matrasses in that room. More matrasses could be reached via a wooden ladder...

....the rain continued. The track was muddy....(.....) was from Switzerland, born in Rome, suffering from rain, mud and the rest of it. He had walked since hours and we were both heading to Chaumont. At least another 6 hours away... We met again that evening... and some weeks later near Espalion. We had dinner together in Conques. He reached Santiago - and sent me a postcard.

...pleasant walking conditions that day...

... Rhone on the right - and the "feared" Mt. Tournier on the horizon. The first "real" mountain. Only 900m high! The trail, descending to the valley floor was steep and very slippery... Stayed in "Le Clos des Capucins" that night.

Late afternoon at the Lac d’Annecy. The wordwide probably most important festival for cartoon films, the "Festival international du film d'animation d'Annecy", takes place in Annecy every year.

Looking back to the Lac d’Annecy at noontime.

The "Pont de l'Abîme" ("Bridge of the Abyss") is hanging breathtaking 96 metres over the "Gorges du Chéran". It was built in 1887 (the year Eiffel startet "his tower" in Paris) by engineer Ferdinand Arnodin, who had revolutionesed the techniques of suspension bridges. After only one year of construction, the bridge was inaugurated in January 1888. First four horses pulled a 7000 kg cart across the bridge. After that the bridge got populated by the applauding crowd, shaking hands over the chasm.

The "Pont de l'Abîme" ("Bridge of the Abyss") is hanging breathtaking 96 metres over the "Gorges du Chéran". It was built in 1887 (the year Eiffel startet "his tower" in Paris) by engineer Ferdinand Arnodin, who had revolutionesed the techniques of suspension bridges. After only one year of construction, the bridge was inaugurated in January 1888. First four horses pulled a 7000 kg cart across the bridge. After that the bridge got populated by the applauding crowd, shaking hands over the chasm.