This was the first time (Oct 31) we rented a hybrid car from Citélib, a Yaris (automatic). It was comfortable and very quiet to drive. Actually, so quiet that we scared some hunters walking on the road; they did not hear us approaching until we had sneaked right behind them. […]
A week after our Budapest trip we were in Paris for an extended weekend. We stayed in the Voltaire/Bastille neighborhood again. We found street after street lined by “boutique shops”, run mostly by Asians and selling the most horrendous outfits for shockingly low prices. Some of them had particularly creepy […]
Before our early morning flight (6:15am) to Budapest we spent a night in Geneva at hotel Windsor near the railway station. They had a cool exhibition of pop art in their lobby. We also found a brew pub nearby and there the most pathetic nachos (no photos, sorry, but take […]
We spent a week in a small house in a small town of Mens about 55 kilometers South of Grenoble (alt. 750m). With the exception of one day, when we took a long run in nearby trails (of which there are a lot!), we spent most of the daytime working […]
We have a home cooked dinner practically every night, weekdays and weekends. Sometimes when cooking we get sidelined by simple things like the information on the incredients we are using or questions on the TV game show we are watching while cooking. Then we spend some time frantically searching the […]
This weekend there was an ultra trail running race in Grenoble (Ut4M = Ultra Tour des 4 Massifs). It crossed four mountain ranges around the town: Vercors, Oisans, Belledonne, and Chartreuse. Runners from over 20 nationalities took part. There were several race categories with different distances and different positive vertical […]
Next Saturday’s ultra trail race Ut4M will take us to Chamechaude (not quite to the top but pretty high anyway), which at height of 2082m is the highest peak in the Chartreuse range. Today, we made a short practice hike all the way to the top. Because of the rain, […]
After the fourth week of the heat wave we escaped the town again, this time to Vaujany in the canton of Bourg d’Oisans, not far from Des 2 Alpes where we were two weeks ago. Beside enjoying cooler mountain air our weekend getaway had another purpose, namely to watch the […]
After the second week of the heatwave we escaped a little further to Les Deux Alpes ski resort for the national day holiday weekend. We started driving on Saturday morning and after clearing the traffic jam, in a couple of hours we were at Lac du Chambon which is a […]