(April 7-9, 2017) This was another extended weekend trip to the neighboring town, only 25 kilometers North-west of Grenoble. The reason for the trip was Lisa Simone’s (Nina Simone’s daughter) concert that was part of the Voiron Jazz Festival, but we also did some nice trail running and hiking. Unlike […]
People say that Chambéry is a boring town. How can it be when it has (at least) two great beer bars and hosted The Ukulele Orchestra of the Great Britain at Espace Malraux. The latter was our reason to visit the town in mid January. The weather was not. We […]
We spent one week (Dec 17-24) Winter vacationing in Serre Chevalier valley in Hautes-Alpes, a two-hour bus ride South from Grenoble. We stayed at chalet studio in La Salle les Alpes/Villeneuve at the altitude of 1400 meters. This sad little snowperson epitomizes our winter break. It was a lovely week, […]
Tomi’s been in cold and humid Finland for this past week, while Tei has enjoyed quite aestival weather in Grenoble. Althought the mornings have been cool, the daytime temperatures have climbed to mid-twenties. On Saturday morning it was time to climb Mont Rachais (1050m). Leaving at 9am. it was only […]
Chapeau! We finished the 40Km Vercors race. We suffered of no injuries, no blisters, no chafing, only slight dehydration (I lost about 4kg in weight, even if I emptied the 1.5l-bladder about three times), and had a huge appetite afterwards. This was what Tei was planning to carry on her […]
This extended weekend we did three more or less intensive practise runs and hikes to prepare ourselves and test the equipment for this coming Friday’s Ut4M (Ultra Tour des 4 Massifs) race — we will not do the whole 160 on the four mountain ranges (Vercors, Oisans, Belledonne, Chartreuse), but […]
We will do the Ut4M, a 40-kilometer mountain marathon again this August. Last year we did the last section of the 160-kilometer race on Chartreuse range (we did not quite finish, though), but this year we’ll do the first section on the Vercors range. Today we wanted to familiarize ourself […]
We spend a week in a lovely old town apartment in Annecy, an idyllic lakeside town, about 100 kilometers north-east of Grenoble in Haute-Savoie department. With the exception of one day, when we went for a whole-day hiking trip to the nearby mountains, we spent most of the daytime working […]
Like I mentioned in the earlier post, I’ve taken the habit of climbing the stairs up to La Bastille a few times a week. I am not the only one. The grenoblois love that hill — it is a their popular exercise/passtime to run, walk, ride, or climb the stairs […]