This extended weekend we did three more or less intensive practise runs and hikes to prepare ourselves and test the equipment for this coming Friday’s Ut4M (Ultra Tour des 4 Massifs) race — we will not do the whole 160 on the four mountain ranges (Vercors, Oisans, Belledonne, Chartreuse), but […]
Park hopping Green corridor, the base of the former Malaysian (KTM) railroad that used to run from Tanjong Pagar railway station in South of Singapore to Woodland checkpoint in North, is one of the few wild natural spaces for trail running and bicycling in Singapore that is not manicured and […]
Seeing Taj Mahal live has been on my bucket list since the first time I really started listening to him play on the online radio I listen at work. He is a very avid tourer, but never before has he been this close to us. When I found out that […]
Old neighborhoods The first item in our agenda was to visit the neighborshoods where we used to live and work, both of which have undergone quite a few changes. This is the Pasir Panjang village (in 2012) as we remember it when most of the businesses had already closed because […]
When we two and a half years ago left Singapore for France, we hardly thought of returning. After having closed the credit cards and claimed the credit points we had accumulated during our 5-year tenure on the tiny island we ended up having quite a few Singapore Airlines miles. When […]
This is our first hike since we came back from Singapore, and counts towards the series of preparations for the 40km mountain marathon we are planning to run in August on the Vercors range. We packed the breakfast, so we were on the road early. And we were almost the […]
Finally our five-month kitchen project is over, and we have a fully functional kitchen. On January 23 we removed the upper cabinets, the hood, and the backsplash. The cabinets were mostly unused, and we wanted more light and open space to our kitchen. We visited a couple of kitchen stores […]
We will do the Ut4M, a 40-kilometer mountain marathon again this August. Last year we did the last section of the 160-kilometer race on Chartreuse range (we did not quite finish, though), but this year we’ll do the first section on the Vercors range. Today we wanted to familiarize ourself […]
We spend a week in a lovely old town apartment in Annecy, an idyllic lakeside town, about 100 kilometers north-east of Grenoble in Haute-Savoie department. With the exception of one day, when we went for a whole-day hiking trip to the nearby mountains, we spent most of the daytime working […]