We are so lucky we live in this department. Even if we are still (until the coming Tuesday) restricted within 100 kilometers from our home, there is a lot to see and do in Isère, so we don’t really need to go any further — actually Lyon, even if in […]
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 post is extempore and inspired by our recent stay in Vienne. Since 2013 we’ve almost exclusively stayed at Airbnb accommodations during our travels, and we’ve done it in many countries: Finland, France, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, Romania, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and UK. While […]
This past Sunday (23.6.) we returned to the Southern Vercors in attempt to hike the route we started a year ago but were forced to quit because of rain and strong wind. This time we were much luckier — it was all sunshine and warm, but not too hot, with […]
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 […]