This is interesting. Lake Geneva is only Lake Geneva on the Swiss side. The border between Switzerland and France runs right through the lake, so on the south side of the lake, on the French side, it's called Lac Léman. Same lake; two names.
Once we left Montreux, we started driving through towns called Aigle, Evian (where they bottle the Evian water), Thonon - where we enjoyed this great lunch in a Turkish restaurant, Geneva, until we arrived in Annecy. This is one city where we had not pre-booked our hotel and it was a big mistake. Managed to find a room at Le Beauregard, but it certainly didn't meet the quality of our previous hotels.
The next few days are a bit of a blur, not because there wasn't anything to see, but because we travelled and saw settings that became interchangeable: beautiful buildings, elegant fountains, lots of people, tourists on bicycles or strolling through gardens, confusing cities, narrow streets in smaller towns, Marge getting confused and sending us on dead-end roads, etc. Wandered through Alby, Chambéry, Les Echelles, St-Marcellin, and Valence. Tourist restaurants with dry pizza, some with poor service, others with waiters with huge smiles and a genuine welcome. Like I mentioned before, one needs to take a couple of days to visit each place, not a couple of hours.
We left the smaller roads and took the freeway to Aix-en-Provence, which went incredibly fast but didn't allow us to explore much of the area. This is a toll road and you go about 130 kph.
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