Recent non-birding holiday in Annecy, on the edge of the French Alps.

Black Redstarts
Serin 1 singing in hotel grounds.
Black Kite 5+ seen on a couple of boat trips.
Tufted Duck 1m
Yellow-legged Gulls
Black-headed Gulls
Mute Swans
Coots
Mallards
Goosander 4 f/imms.
White Wagtails

Day trip to Chamonix produced:

Water Pipit 1
Bonelli's Warbler 1 singing.
Black Redstarts
Raven 1
Fieldfare 1
Serin 1 singing.
Black Kite 6+
Grey Heron 2

Seen from the coach on the way down from Calais:

Red Kite 2 in Northern France.
Black Kite 12+ from Bergundy, south.
Peregrine 1
Buzzards
Kestrels
Marsh Harrier 2 just outside Calais.