Except one or two days we have gone running every day of the week during this lockdown. We have only skipped our morning run when we thought it is a good idea to go to the supermarket right when it opens. But that was not a good idea, since most […]
The excellent news yesterday were that this confinement will end on May 11, unless there is a relapse. This means that we will be allowed to move without a certificate within 100 kilometers from home, and beyond that only for work or family emergency related purposes (with a certificate). Even […]
Yesterday we did the second trip to buy articles of ‘première nécessité’ at the gardening shop, Paquet Jardin, that recently partially reopened. We needed potting soil and clay pebbles in order to pot a couple of herbs we had bought previously. We also bought more plants, a coriander and a […]
One month ago on March 17 at 12pm. France started a full lockdown that allows going out only for necessary shopping, seeing a doctor, or exercising for one hour, once a day, within one kilometer from home. So far we have gone grocery shopping once or twice a week, and […]
Since we are allowed to exercise within such a limited area, and we leave at the same time every day, around 7am., it is inevitable that we see the same people at the same places each morning. But we also see people running that we have never seen before. Honestly, […]
We here in France have been in home confinement for three weeks now, since the French government extended the lockdown by two weeks. The regulations are still the same: we are allowed to leave home only for necessary shopping and to do physical individual exercise once a day for one […]
This certainly has been a bizarre Spring. When we were in South Tyrol in Italy attending the biathlon world championship in February, we already started to hear and read about the alarming rate of new coronavirus cases in Lombardia region in Northern Italy. We were not really worried, even if […]
The snow situation near here has been quite poor this winter, so we booked our last week of winter vacation in Les Saisies, Savoie department, which has been much more fortunate with snow. Today our plans received a major blow as following the prime minister’s speech yesterday, the ski resorts […]
After returning from the Biathlon World Cup in Antholz-Anterselva last Spring, we bought tickets to this year’s World Championships, and began a long wait to revisit this lovely area in South Tyrol (Alto Adige) in Northern Italy. This time it was quite different, though: there were far more races and […]