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 […]
This was a winter vacation we both have looked forward to since last Spring: a lot of skiing in the sunny and flat valley of Vallée de la Clarée in Hautes-Alpes near Italian border, but it turned out to be another wasted vacation because we both were sick. We did […]
Not this time. And not the vacation I was looking forward to! The plan was to do some scenic hikes in lovely, sunny December weather. None of that happened. The weather was dreary and grey — we only had sun on one day of our six-day trip — luckily it […]
The dreaded November is over. My memory may fail me but I think that it wasn’t as bad as it has been in previous years we’ve lived here. Of course we had a considerable number of days with low hanging clouds but also fair amount of sunshine, and many beautiful, […]