This Summer’s vacation/workation was a combination of train travel with an Interrail Global Pass, and flights from Italy to Finland and back. First, we took a train to Firenze (*) where we spent three days before continuing to Pisa by train, and flying to Helsinki. From Helsinki we took a […]
Just a brief post of yesterday‘s hike and attempt to find some cooler and cleaner air. We did part of this hike in February last year. Then I wrote that it was lovely but challenging hike, the difficulty mainly due to snow and ice on the trail, and no snowshoes. […]
We returned to the Southern Vercors for this extended Pentecost holiday weekend to make up what we missed last December. Oh boy it was different! Despite the somewhat chilly and strong wind, the weather was perfect, warm and sunny, and neither of us was sick. We stayed at an Airbnb […]
We returned to the heart of the Chartreuse massif for this extended Ascension Day holiday weekend. On our previous visit to the valley of two rivers Guiers (Vif and Mort) in March we discovered a bicycle path that runs at the bottom of the valley. Even if we walked most […]
I had the second surgery on my left arm today from which a thin layer of melanoma was removed a month ago. This was a standard procedure to follow up such a thing, they told me, to make sure no malign cells reside beyond the original removed cells. So, more […]
About a week and a half ago I finally saw my doctor for a mole on my left arm that had changed color for darker, since …. I don‘t remember, maybe a year ago. She took some pictures and sent them to a dermatologist. Later that day she contacted me […]
The past week ended our winter season, and it also ended the winter sports season — more on that at the end of the post. We returned to La Vallée de la Clarée in Hautes-Alpes for one week, since our year-end vacation there was a disaster (we both were sick […]
We spent the extended weekend in Entre-deux-Guiers (Le Guiers Vif and Le Guiers Mort) in the Guiers river valley on the Chartreuse mountains. The main reason for the trip was our dentist appointments in the neighboring village of Les-Échelles on Monday, so we thought why not spend the whole weekend […]
While living in France we have not gone to concerts or theater anywhere near as much or often as we did in the US and Singapore — maybe because interesting artists and world class acts do not find themselves in this region, and traveling hours for a single performance or […]