Before dinner on Saturday we met up with Emilie’s sister and her husband in Evian. While there we walked around the downtown area, which was decorated in a mixed Christmas / Halloween-type fashion as part of an annual Le Fabuleux Village (ou la Legende des Flottins).
I don’t really know the full story behind the village, but it basically centers around some mischievous elves and gnomes that live in the Alps and come down to Lac Leman every year during the winter to rest on the shores of Evian in a village of driftwood. During one November, Santa Claus was doing a training run over the lake and crashed because of a squabble amongst some of the reindeer. The elves and gnomes swam out to save him and every year since Santa has returned in December to see the friends that rescued him.
It may sound a bit corny and convoluted, but its a very popular story with the kids and the many driftwood sculptures on display were pretty interesting.
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