Third Fall Hike 2015 – Musée de la Grande Chartreuse — Le Petit Som — Le Monastère de la Grande Chartreuse

When we left Grenoble at 8am. (on Wed Nov. 11) the town was completely covered in thick clouds. When we reached Sappey-en-Chartreuse at about 1000 meters we started to see the surrounding peaks, and then the clouds were behind and below us and we enjoyed sun shine for the rest […]

Because the night belongs to us — Paris in October

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 […]

Europe

We never used to think that Europe is a place with unique characteristics that its members share and at the same time make it a thing, different from other things. Salad at Crudo Osteria Temporane, Turin, Italy. To us what constituted Europe appeared as separate countries like Finland, Germany, Spain, […]