Swim in Lac Annecy

Well after nearly 9 months of pressure from my French neighbours, I finally took the plunge (pun intended) and went for a swim in the lake.

Everytime I spoke with my neighbours, they could not believe I had not been in the lake. Everybody who lives around the lake also spends a big part of their life in the lake too...apparently! So after a really sweaty day gardening I decided I'd go and do it.

To say the water was cold was an understatement...I waded in (without wincing as there were loads of people around) and just dived in. The cold literally took my breath away, I couldn't even swim, all I could do was float around. I did manage to sort of breast crawl/half drown my way about 30 metres from the shore where I found the water was quite warm. The warmness didn't last though as there were pockets of freezing water drifting through...so I make a quick dash for the shore and exited (still trying to look sort of cool) to the warmth of my towel.