We had a superb dinner, La Table Gastronomique, yesterday at Grenoble’s only Michelin star restaurant Maison Fantin Latour to celebrate our wedding anniversary. We have dined there before; once at our own expense and a few times when Tomi’s employer has organized their year-end/Christmas celebration there. And during the COVID-19 […]
We booked our year-end skiing vacation in Les Alberts in Vallée de la Clarée in Hautes-Alpes well ahead of time when skiing conditions still (or already) looked very promising (the same place, but not the same apartment, we stayed in December last year and then again in March) . Then […]
The final post in the July on Rails and Trails series is about food we ate and cooked on our vacation. Since we were going to spend most of the time by the lake in Finland, and by the seaside, or near, in Italy, we were really looking forward to […]
People who wished us a good and safe travels, also said something like “Eat crêpes” for me!” We didn’t eat crêpes even once, and galettes — savory stuffed buckwheat pancakes — only once in Carnoët after visiting the Valley of Saints (no pictures of those though); I am not into […]
We didn’t have any exceptional culinary adventures on this vacation. As planned, we ate a lot of fresh and hot smoked fish, with potatoes or in salads. We cooked a lot, but also bought microwave meals for lunches, such as the beef soup below: We also ate a couple of […]
The year 2023 was nothing special for us, or out of ordinary: we continued to do activities we like: cooking, running, hiking, walking, and just a little bit of skiing because of the bad snow situations last winter. What was exceptional, though, was that we didn’t do any bicycle tours […]
Auvergne produces five world-renowned PDO (Protected Designation of Origin, in French Appellation d’origine protégée, AOP) cheeses: Saint-Nectaire, Cantal, Salers, Fourme d’Ambert, and Bleu d’Auvergne. The last two are blue cheeses. More information can be found here. It was raining in the morning, so we skipped hiking and went for a […]
Villages of Saint-Martin-Cantalès This was an easy and more scenic hike (11.15K in 3h 10mins, D+/D- 308m) starting from the little village of Saint-Martin-Cantalès, and passing through or by several others. There are no pictures of them since they basically consisted of just one or two houses, and there was […]
It has been quite quiet here lately, partly because we have not had much exciting and interesting news or adventures to report, and partly because we were out of town for three weeks on our annual bicycle tour. This time we did Le Tour de Bourgogne. We will post pictures […]