We booked a newly and very nicely renovated studio apartment on the sixth and uppermost floor of the apartment building in Roche Béranger in Chamrousse 1750 for three night this past weekend. We drove there early Friday evening and returned this Monday morning so that we could have two full […]
We returned to Briançon and Vallée de la Clarée in Hautes-Alpes to run the 10K race of the Névache – Briançon half marathon event. We drove to Briançon in the Friday afternoon via the Fréjus tunnel — it was a smooth and pleasant ride with almost non-existent traffic. On Saturday […]
This was our first real hike for a very long time: we have been busy with our marathon and half-marathon training programs, but also preparing for the bicycle touring season. Instead of going running or riding this past Sunday, we thought it would be cool to go hiking at a […]
This past long weekend concluded our two-weekend dress rehearsal for the bicycle touring season of 2026. We encountered almost every aspect — good or bad — one commonly encounters on tours. We rode in heavy rain and chilly wind, but also under a scorching sun in the beginning of a […]
Our bicycle touring has been on hiatus for a few years for various reasons, but we are resuming this much loved recreational activity this Summer. We are planning a 2 to 3-week tour later in the Summer or early Fall, probably La Via Allier — a new route following the […]
Our return flight from Madrid took off about thirty minutes after the scheduled time, but still landed in Lyon on time. Since bus connections from the airport to city center did not look very convenient, we were lazy and took a taxi to hotel Victoria in Perrache quarter on the […]
We had a lovely week-long vacation in Spain. Our two goals were to run the Zurich Rock’n’Roll Marathon in Madrid after 11 years, and visit our friends in Chinchón whom, likewise, we had not seen in 11 years. Except for a couple of navigational glitches, problems with locking the car, […]
We started the summer season with an easy hike at the lower slopes of the Vercors range near Grenoble. This was the area where we did our very first hike just three days after moving to Grenoble. Except for a short attempt for a wintry hike five years ago (the […]
We celebrated the Spring equinox at Maison Fantin Latour with another chef Stéphane Froidevaux’s creative dinner “La Table Gastronomique,” this time inspired by herbs and plants that he has already been able to harvest this Spring. In our earlier post from January I mentioned that he does not only grow […]