A happy post today. Le Tour is in Annecy today, one of the most beautiful cities I have ever lived and I even considered moving there when I left Amsterdam four years ago. You can share the views of Annecy by watcing Eurosport or ITV4 when thLe Tour is shown today.

Annecy is a town of Art and History, Annecy is acclaimed for its beauty, its natural heritage and its quality of life. Indeed, the capital town of the Haute-Savoie region boasts an exceptional environment: it is situated on the edge of the clearest lake in Europe and set in the foothills of the Aravis and Bauges alpine mountain ranges, not far from the Swiss and Italian borders.
This attractive location contributes to its economic vitality, today focused on cutting edge technologies, notably in the sphere of animated film. The town is also a major tourist attraction: Annecy has preserved a historic town centre, the Old Town, extremely popular with visitors, and has successfully developed a variety of outdoor leisure activities for every season.
A university town, Annecy is also renowned for its superb cultural landscape with the International Animated Film Festival in June, and the Lake Festival in August, together with the many sports events hosted in the town all year round.

From about 4am I have been listening to people talk about the total eclipse in Asia this morning and I was waiting for a particular answer and it never happened. If somebody had asked me what I had seen during a total eclipse it woyuld not be solar flares or anything like that, it would be nothing because everything had gone dark.

And are the reports on swine flu getting on your nerves. The newsreader on the BBC this morning just randomly threw in the figure that 30 people had now died in the UK since its outbreak. OK, every death is sad but how long has swine flu been about. It went into remission during the MP expenses scandal but has now returned. Next time they come out with these random statistics don’t you think they should compare it with the number of people who have died with normal flu, by violent crime or by drunken drivers during the same time so we can get this all in proportion.