Private tour in Annecy Claire J
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Claire J.
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I have been living in Haute-Savoie for 30 years, I am married and I am a 54-year-old mother of four. I always loved travelling with my family to Asia, North and Central America, Oceania and Europe. We loved mixing French and foreign cultures as well as discovering beautiful landscapes. My hobbies are music and sport. I can play piano, organ and guitar. I like alpine skiing, ski touring, cross-country skiing in winter, hiking and water skiing in summer. As a former executive, I have benefited from 25 years experience in sales, export, strategic planning and finance before setting up my own business. Over the years, I had realized how important travel, tourism, discoveries and meeting new people were to me. I became a guide with the aim of letting French and foreign visitors discover Savoie and Haute-Savoie in the most pleasant way. I structured my touristic agency as a travel agent combined with my Heritage Guide agreement. I am also a biographer, it gives me the opportunity to meet local people and tell stories about their life and experience. Being a tour guide allows me to show the variety of the Savoie Mont-Blanc region. I like explaining how people lived there before, how it became famous thanks to mountaineering, how is life nowadays and also showing high-quality french products such as cheese, wine, bread. . . The region Savoie Mont-Blanc is well-known for its sport activities in winter as well as in summer, but it is less known for the richness of its baroque style architecture, its musical events and its History. As a guide I always try to share my knowledge and my passion for these different aspects, according to your wishes. I am really keen to offer tours in a friendly, secure atmosphere, so that you can totally relax. I am ready to customize your tours and be flexible according to your requests. I will be so happy to welcome you soon, to accompany you throughout the whole tour and to share the delightful treasures of the Savoie Mont-Blanc region with you. Heritage guide agreement in the Savoie Mont-Blanc region Multi-national MBA with ESCP Europe in 1988, studying in Paris, Oxford and Berlin. I am not a mountain guide and will not be able to guide you in mountaineering and hiking tours, but I will accompany you during tours organized by myself with licensed mountain guides.
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In the heart of Annecy mountains, you will come and discover wild and rough landscapes, still protected, with charming villages, paturages and woods. Let me tell you how natives were living in the mountains before, during snowy and cold winters and how some were leaving their native country and migrating in order to seek their livelihood. They were men and women, of all ages, but most of them were young men and young couples with or without children, who left their country on foot. At the end of nineteenth century, departures dramatically increased thanks to railway and most of those who left their country were going to Paris. I will also tell you how people live today as farmers, mountain guides or other profiles. Anecdotes and little stories will come along with the history of Savoie Mont Blanc region!
- We will visit together the Annecy mountains charming villages - We will have lunch in a traditional cuisine restaurant in the mountains - Then we will be visiting a farm and tasting local products This tour can be tailored to your wishes and in line with realistic expectations, please contact me with your questions.
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Transportation will be with my private vehicle, a comfortable Volkswagen Multivan, TDI 4 motion. Please note that we will use some mountain roads, so the round trip from Chamonix to Annecy mountains may take about 3 hours. We will also walk around in Annecy mountains villages.
Annecy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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