To be honest, I am not a fan on forests on Chartreuse range. They are muddy and messy. There’s nothing to see, no scenery, and they are all the same: mostly leafy trees growing on steep slopes, occasional spruce blocking whatever little beam of sunlight that gets filtered through the […]
This Saturday took us to The Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette (Sanctuaire Notre-Dame de La Salette), the site of the Marian apparition to two children in 1846 in La Salette-Fallavaux. The Sanctuary, which has a Basilica, a Chapel, and a hotel for pilgrims, is located at about 1800 […]
This past Pentecost holiday weekend we headed to Southern Vercors in Gresse-en-Vercors for an easy hike, to recover from the previous day’s bicycle season opener. We missed the parking lot at Col de l’Allimas (1352m), and then drove all the way to La Bâtie (~1170m), and started walking from there. […]
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 […]
After eight weeks (55 days) the French lockdown came to an end today. There may be some areas that are more severely affected and have different rules, but here in Rhône-Alpes we are allowed to move freely within 100 kilometers from home or within our department (Isère) — even beyond […]
Except one or two days we have gone running every day of the week during this lockdown. We have only skipped our morning run when we thought it is a good idea to go to the supermarket right when it opens. But that was not a good idea, since most […]
One month ago on March 17 at 12pm. France started a full lockdown that allows going out only for necessary shopping, seeing a doctor, or exercising for one hour, once a day, within one kilometer from home. So far we have gone grocery shopping once or twice a week, and […]
Since we are allowed to exercise within such a limited area, and we leave at the same time every day, around 7am., it is inevitable that we see the same people at the same places each morning. But we also see people running that we have never seen before. Honestly, […]
We here in France have been in home confinement for three weeks now, since the French government extended the lockdown by two weeks. The regulations are still the same: we are allowed to leave home only for necessary shopping and to do physical individual exercise once a day for one […]