This past weekend marked two years of us living in France. Today marked the second time we assembled outside of our respective workplaces with our colleagues to honor and commemorate victims of hideous terrorist attacks that have shaken this nation. However, at the moments like this, it is not hard […]
When we left Grenoble at 8am. (on Wed Nov. 11) the town was completely covered in thick clouds. When we reached Sappey-en-Chartreuse at about 1000 meters we started to see the surrounding peaks, and then the clouds were behind and below us and we enjoyed sun shine for the rest […]
Unlike in the last weekend’s hike, when we saw just two people and no animals (at least mammals), this Sunday (November 08) we saw heards of people and animals. The climb to the top of la Grande Sure (1920m) was pretty populated. We took a longer detour back to the […]
This was the first time (Oct 31) we rented a hybrid car from Citélib, a Yaris (automatic). It was comfortable and very quiet to drive. Actually, so quiet that we scared some hunters walking on the road; they did not hear us approaching until we had sneaked right behind them. […]
A week after our Budapest trip we were in Paris for an extended weekend. We stayed in the Voltaire/Bastille neighborhood again. We found street after street lined by “boutique shops”, run mostly by Asians and selling the most horrendous outfits for shockingly low prices. Some of them had particularly creepy […]
Before our early morning flight (6:15am) to Budapest we spent a night in Geneva at hotel Windsor near the railway station. They had a cool exhibition of pop art in their lobby. We also found a brew pub nearby and there the most pathetic nachos (no photos, sorry, but take […]
We spent a week in a small house in a small town of Mens about 55 kilometers South of Grenoble (alt. 750m). With the exception of one day, when we took a long run in nearby trails (of which there are a lot!), we spent most of the daytime working […]
We have a home cooked dinner practically every night, weekdays and weekends. Sometimes when cooking we get sidelined by simple things like the information on the incredients we are using or questions on the TV game show we are watching while cooking. Then we spend some time frantically searching the […]
This weekend there was an ultra trail running race in Grenoble (Ut4M = Ultra Tour des 4 Massifs). It crossed four mountain ranges around the town: Vercors, Oisans, Belledonne, and Chartreuse. Runners from over 20 nationalities took part. There were several race categories with different distances and different positive vertical […]