We wanted to spend the extended Ascension day holiday somewhere in Southern Vercors, where we have not been before, but we could not find any reasonably priced accommodation. Instead, booking.com kept offering places in Vaujany and Alpe d’Huez. We had been in Vaujany before, some years ago to escape the […]
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 […]
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 […]
We started our Fall vacation with a half-day road trip to Saint-Antoine l’Abbaye, a small town in our department that has been listed among the most beautiful villages of France since 2010. It was cloudy when we left Grenoble towards North-West, but after just few minutes of driving all we […]
Work trips are work trips – cannot really enjoy the new ambiance the way one should. Deview 2018 In October Tomi got a chance to visit a Deview 2018 event in Seoul Korea. A technology conference organized by Korean ambience intelligence company Naver. The two day event featured four parallel […]
We have friends visiting us from Finland. This is the second time they visit us in Grenoble, the first being quite soon after we moved here. On Sunday (September 30, 2018) we drove over the Vercors range to Pont-en-Royans. The plan was to have picnic there, but soon clouds covered […]
We made a day trip to Carcassonne to visit the old walled city. We were happy to be there early before the crowds took over in the afternoon. The downside was that after exploring the town, we had more than an hour to spend before any of the restaurants opened […]
This winter we have prepared quite a few slow cooking dishes, mainly with some sort of meat. Especially after we started to patronize Intermarché, which sells cheap cuts of meat for very reasonable price, sometimes as low as 6 euros per kilo. The downside is that one has to buy […]