We had friends visiting from the US this weekend. Today it was one of the first real Summer days here in Grenoble, and what did we do? We took these guys above 2000 meters to show them Winter (when it actually just unseasonally snowed in their home state). This is […]
This year Tomi ran alone, since Tei was sporting an annoying back leg/butt injury. He finished in 2:12:51 (zip time 2:11:38), which was about 15 seconds better than our finishing time last year. The weather certainly was much nicer this time: even if cloudy, it was much warmer. Here Tomi […]
Today we spent a few hours watching future martinfourcades and mariedorinhaberts in the making in regional biathlon championships at Col de Porte biathlon stadium. There were four race categories: U12 and U14, both with mixed relay of 3 biathletes, and U10 and U16, with single mixed relay with one shooting. […]
We have spent a great deal of this winter planning our bathroom and kitchen renovations, visiting shops to choose materials, lighting, and furniture. And still we are not anywhere near done. Because of that we have not had any nice winter hikes or skiing trips this year. However, right after […]
We moved to our new home on December 16, and a couple of days later left the sea of boxes behind to spend two weeks on the interrail trip in Europe (there will be another blog post on it). When back in early January we were hopeful of getting internet […]
Yesterday marked the final day in the long process of getting into our new home here in Grenoble. It did not go as well as we wanted. We had asked around for recommendations for moving companies, and got conflicting reviews of the company we eventually chose — we chose it […]
This past weekend marked two years of us living in France. Today marked the second time we assembled outside of our respective workplaces with our colleagues to honor and commemorate victims of hideous terrorist attacks that have shaken this nation. However, at the moments like this, it is not hard […]
When we left Grenoble at 8am. (on Wed Nov. 11) the town was completely covered in thick clouds. When we reached Sappey-en-Chartreuse at about 1000 meters we started to see the surrounding peaks, and then the clouds were behind and below us and we enjoyed sun shine for the rest […]
Unlike in the last weekend’s hike, when we saw just two people and no animals (at least mammals), this Sunday (November 08) we saw heards of people and animals. The climb to the top of la Grande Sure (1920m) was pretty populated. We took a longer detour back to the […]