The design capital of France truly disappointed us. Ever since we drove through the central Saint-Étienne a couple of years ago, and got somewhat lost there, I have wanted to visit the city with more time. The city was filthy, filthier than the capital, if it even is possible: there […]
Saariselkä is more than thousand kilometers North of Helsinki and it took us 12 hours to get there; first by train to Oulu (5h30m), where we changed to another train for Rovaniemi (2h15m). From there we took a bus to Saariselkä (3h). We arrived late in Lapland but it was […]
This is a quick post about our weekend trip to Vienne (Isère) to Joan Baez’s farewell tour concert “Fare Thee Well”. We bought the ticket well in advance, but decided on the last minute — we had contemplated the idea before, though — that it would be a great bicycle […]
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 […]
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 […]
Our original plan for the Ascension holiday weekend was to visit Annecy, which we have wanted to do for some time (since winter). Then we checked the weather forecast; it promised mostly rainy and chilly weather around Annecy and Grenoble. Another look at the weather map told us to go […]