Our return flight from Madrid took off about thirty minutes after the scheduled time, but still landed in Lyon on time. Since bus connections from the airport to city center did not look very convenient, we were lazy and took a taxi to hotel Victoria in Perrache quarter on the […]
We had a lovely week-long vacation in Spain. Our two goals were to run the Zurich Rock’n’Roll Marathon in Madrid after 11 years, and visit our friends in Chinchón whom, likewise, we had not seen in 11 years. Except for a couple of navigational glitches, problems with locking the car, […]
We started the summer season with an easy hike at the lower slopes of the Vercors range near Grenoble. This was the area where we did our very first hike just three days after moving to Grenoble. Except for a short attempt for a wintry hike five years ago (the […]
We celebrated the Spring equinox at Maison Fantin Latour with another chef Stéphane Froidevaux’s creative dinner “La Table Gastronomique,” this time inspired by herbs and plants that he has already been able to harvest this Spring. In our earlier post from January I mentioned that he does not only grow […]
Finally, we had a proper winter vacation, with snow and skiing and all. First, we spent a week in the village of Le Rosier in Vallée de la Clarée in Hautes-Alpes (our third time there in three months) running and skiing, and then three days in Entre-Deux-Guiers on the Chartreuse […]
When I look at my Facebook memories pretty much every other year this time I have griped about the worst possible winter ever. And this year is no exception. According to our exercise log there have been just a handful of not rainy and cloudy days in February. It has […]
… after two years, that is! This short post is to share some pictures from our extempore skiing adventure in Vallée de la Clarée in Hautes-Alpes. A couple of weeks after we returned from our year-end vacation there, having not skied a single meter because of the snow situation, a […]
We had a superb dinner, La Table Gastronomique, yesterday at Grenoble’s only Michelin star restaurant Maison Fantin Latour to celebrate our wedding anniversary. We have dined there before; once at our own expense and a few times when Tomi’s employer has organized their year-end/Christmas celebration there. And during the COVID-19 […]
As mentioned in the previous post we did not drive home from Narbonne in one day, because a seven-hour drive is quite tiresome for both the driver and the passenger, and it is definitely too much sitting for one day. Instead we stayed overnight in Nyons at about halfway point. […]