Then it was almost the time to say goodbye to Finland. We booked the couple of last nights in a highrise in Kalasatama (only the 11th floor though) on the Eastern side of Helsinki, since we have spent a lot of time in the Southern and Western parts, and we […]
Besides the concert in Tampere, this was the part of our vacation that I looked forward to the most: almost two weeks at Tomi’s parents’ house in Kangaslampi in North Savonia region in Eastern Finland. As usual, we had the house to ourselves since the parents live in an apartment […]
From Tampere we took the Serlachius shuttle to Mänttä to visit the Art Festival, the largest summer exhibition of Finnish contemporary art — our almost annual tradition since I don’t remember when, but it must have been before we moved to Singapore in 2008. This year’s theme was “On Being”, […]
There is not much to write about our short stay in Helsinki. Since our flight from Bergamo landed after midnight, we stayed the first night at the Scandic Helsinki Airport hotel. The next two nights we stayed at an Airbnb in Sompasaari. On our first morning there we went for […]
We returned to Trièves for bicycle touring, this time not just for one but four days. Like last time seven years ago, partial plan was to escape the heatwave in the city, but at 700-900 meters it was still very hot. Fortunately, unlike when walking or hiking, when riding you […]
We are going to do a four-day bicycle tour next (long) weekend in Southern Isère, and were planning to do the last “practice” ride this Sunday. Since recent days have been and still are very warm with strong gusty wind, even if the official heat alert ended a few days […]
We booked a newly and very nicely renovated studio apartment on the sixth and uppermost floor of the apartment building in Roche Béranger in Chamrousse 1750 for three night this past weekend. We drove there early Friday evening and returned this Monday morning so that we could have two full […]
We returned to Briançon and Vallée de la Clarée in Hautes-Alpes to run the 10K race of the Névache – Briançon half marathon event. We drove to Briançon in the Friday afternoon via the Fréjus tunnel — it was a smooth and pleasant ride with almost non-existent traffic. On Saturday […]
This was our first real hike for a very long time: we have been busy with our marathon and half-marathon training programs, but also preparing for the bicycle touring season. Instead of going running or riding this past Sunday, we thought it would be cool to go hiking at a […]