This Saturday (2.3.) we did something very uncharacteristic to us, something we never do voluntarily on our free time, namely visit a mall on purpose without an intent to buy something (specific) or look for something, but just spend some quality time together. This winter’s “Alpes is(h)ere” magazine ran stories […]
This past Sunday’s (24.2.) hiking trip took us to an abandoned ski station of St. Honoré 1500 above the Matheysine plain. We had seen the buildings of the old station from the valley below many times when driving towards La Mure or back, wondering what they were; they looked like […]
Because we have concentrated on skiing this winter — we started the season early and have went skiing at least once a week, since the conditions have been quite good — we have not done any hiking. One third of the country having started their winter vacation this week we […]
This is the second week in a row when we take the midweek off from work and go skiing to Vercors plain to profit from the nice weather the fullest, since this winter — especially during the weekends — has been quite bleak. However, this will be changing since the […]
We spent four lovely days in Northern Italy in the province called South Tirol or Südtirol in German or Alto Adige in Italian. Even if it is located in Italy, practically everyone spoke German, and all signs and place names were both in Italian and German. It took us one […]
It seems that this may become another bad skiing season; it has been too warm and it has not rained enough for the snow to accumulate, or it has come down as rain. This past weekend we took a chance and booked a trip to Briançon (with its elevation of […]
End of the year is probably not the best time to visit Finland, when it is cold, grey, and dark there, and especially Northern Finland, where the Sun stays below the horizon all day. However, that did not stop us from enjoying our week before Christmas in Helsinki, Tampere and […]
We wanted to take advantage of the great year-end weather and reasonably good skiing conditions, and booked a weekend in Alpe du Grande Serre, a small ski resort at the altitude of 1368 meters in Isère department. The daily newspaper’s ski report promised that all of their 20/20km of cross […]
We bought skis and shoes very late last Winter season, so we did not have many opportunities to practise our skate skiing skills. This year we decided to start early, as soon as there was enough snow and there were tracks somewhere. Last Saturday we drove to Gève in Autrans […]