Like I mentioned in the earlier post, I’ve taken the habit of climbing the stairs up to La Bastille a few times a week. I am not the only one. The grenoblois love that hill — it is a their popular exercise/passtime to run, walk, ride, or climb the stairs […]
Saint-Hilaire-de-Touvet to Cascades des Dioux We had a friend visiting us from the US this weekend, and we entertained him with some easy hikes. First we took the funicular up to Saint-Hilaire-de Touvet on the Chartreuse range. It is claimed to be the steepest funicular in the Alps with the […]
For a couple months now I have not been able to properly run, especially uphills, because of the pain in left butt and the back of the upper thigh. My osteopath suggested it is an issue of difference in the range of movement in left and right hip joint (I […]
We had friends visiting from the US this weekend. Today it was one of the first real Summer days here in Grenoble, and what did we do? We took these guys above 2000 meters to show them Winter (when it actually just unseasonally snowed in their home state). This is […]
This year Tomi ran alone, since Tei was sporting an annoying back leg/butt injury. He finished in 2:12:51 (zip time 2:11:38), which was about 15 seconds better than our finishing time last year. The weather certainly was much nicer this time: even if cloudy, it was much warmer. Here Tomi […]
Today we spent a few hours watching future martinfourcades and mariedorinhaberts in the making in regional biathlon championships at Col de Porte biathlon stadium. There were four race categories: U12 and U14, both with mixed relay of 3 biathletes, and U10 and U16, with single mixed relay with one shooting. […]
We have spent a great deal of this winter planning our bathroom and kitchen renovations, visiting shops to choose materials, lighting, and furniture. And still we are not anywhere near done. Because of that we have not had any nice winter hikes or skiing trips this year. However, right after […]
We moved to our new home on December 16, and a couple of days later left the sea of boxes behind to spend two weeks on the interrail trip in Europe (there will be another blog post on it). When back in early January we were hopeful of getting internet […]
Yesterday marked the final day in the long process of getting into our new home here in Grenoble. It did not go as well as we wanted. We had asked around for recommendations for moving companies, and got conflicting reviews of the company we eventually chose — we chose it […]