Less than 500 meters away, to be exact. We got some sleet yesterday afternoon, but the overnight rain melted it all. This morning there were some snow flurries on the lower slopes of Chartreuse and Belledonne. While during the week we had some gorgeous sunny days, with daytime temperatures climbing […]
I guess I posted a similar title a couple of weeks ago. The weather forecast promised rain for the morning and then clearing skies for the afternoon. Well, it did not happen. It was varying clouds and sun in the morning and at 2pm. when we headed out it was […]
From ten to fifteen centimeters of snow was dumped in this town last night. As the temperature was a few degrees above zero in the morning it was very wet, but even without sunshine, it was so darn beautiful! It is going to freeze tonight. So, there is some anxiety […]
Our long runs have met some bad luck recently. Partly because of us, as we’ve been watching winter sports on TV, but today nature was against us. It was barely snowing when we left (after watching two and half sets of Djokovic-Murray Australian Open final for three hours), but just […]
… that my transition lenses wouldn’t turn black, or we couldn’t go running. We had our first (and last?) snow last night, but following a day of icy drizzle and rain, all the snow is gone now.
Living in this valley, where daytime temperatures have been ranging from -2C to +17C in January, it has been a bit hard to imagine that there is a full winter going on just few kilometers out of town and at few hundred meters higher altitude. That’s why we were not […]
Yesterday the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris was attacked by two (allegedly Islamist) gunmen. The attack resulted in 12 deaths, most of them the magazine’s cartoonists and journalists, who were very well known in France, some for over fourty years. The alleged gunmen, two radicalized brothers of Algerian […]
Tonight the football club Grenoble Foot 38 (Ligue 4) takes on Olympique de Marseille (Ligue 1) in the French Cup here at Stade des Alpes. Two hours before the match the Marseille fans were celebrating here at Place aux Herbes with firecrackers and bombs. These are the pictures I took […]
We don’t bake much, probably because we don’t have cravings for sweet things, and finding good bread at reasonable price here is easy; we have at least five boulangeries within a couple hundred meters, plus a number of pâttisseries and cake shops. Today’s weather is bad enough, so we want […]