From ten to fifteen centimeters of snow was dumped in this town last night. As the temperature was a few degrees above zero in the morning it was very wet, but even without sunshine, it was so darn beautiful! It is going to freeze tonight. So, there is some anxiety […]
Our long runs have met some bad luck recently. Partly because of us, as we’ve been watching winter sports on TV, but today nature was against us. It was barely snowing when we left (after watching two and half sets of Djokovic-Murray Australian Open final for three hours), but just […]
… that my transition lenses wouldn’t turn black, or we couldn’t go running. We had our first (and last?) snow last night, but following a day of icy drizzle and rain, all the snow is gone now.
Living in this valley, where daytime temperatures have been ranging from -2C to +17C in January, it has been a bit hard to imagine that there is a full winter going on just few kilometers out of town and at few hundred meters higher altitude. That’s why we were not […]
Yesterday the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris was attacked by two (allegedly Islamist) gunmen. The attack resulted in 12 deaths, most of them the magazine’s cartoonists and journalists, who were very well known in France, some for over fourty years. The alleged gunmen, two radicalized brothers of Algerian […]
Tonight the football club Grenoble Foot 38 (Ligue 4) takes on Olympique de Marseille (Ligue 1) in the French Cup here at Stade des Alpes. Two hours before the match the Marseille fans were celebrating here at Place aux Herbes with firecrackers and bombs. These are the pictures I took […]
We don’t bake much, probably because we don’t have cravings for sweet things, and finding good bread at reasonable price here is easy; we have at least five boulangeries within a couple hundred meters, plus a number of pâttisseries and cake shops. Today’s weather is bad enough, so we want […]
December 23, 2014: It was -2 degrees of Celsius in Grenoble at 9am., but later in higher altitudes (1400m) a mere T-shirt was quite enough when stopping for lunch (with Mont Blanc in the backdrop), even if the temperature did not climb over +10C. We had a plan to climb […]
On November 2nd we climbed to Col Vert (1766m) in Vercors Range. The total hike distance from Villard-de-Lans (1085m) to the summit and then back via a longer and gentler route was 15.2 kilometers and took us almost 5 hours. (click on the photos to enlarge)