We booked another weekend escape from polluted Grenoble in the little village of Cervières (pop. 183 in 2014) in the department of Hautes-Alpes. We stayed in a small cosy studio, heated by a pellet stove, on the ground floor of an ancient building (seen below in the far end of […]
We spent the weekend in Autrans, a cross-country skiing, biathlon, and ski jumping center on the Vercors plateau. We left Grenoble early on Saturday morning to go for a hike to Le Plateau de Molière. We started from Villeneuve (1108m), some 3.5km north of Autrans, and climbed up to la […]
Today we spent a few hours watching future martinfourcades and mariedorinhaberts in the making in regional biathlon championships at Col de Porte biathlon stadium. There were four race categories: U12 and U14, both with mixed relay of 3 biathletes, and U10 and U16, with single mixed relay with one shooting. […]
This post is about our winter vacation in Biathlon World Championships in Kontiolahti, North Karelia, Finland. This was the first time we attended a winter sport event of this scale. There were some serious problems in the organization on the first major event day — long lines for toilets, food […]
We are in Joensuu, North Karelia (Finland) for the biathlon world championships. So far the weather has been miserable. And the next few days were not any better. Helsinki was all about drizzle and sleet, and a freezing wind. On march 7th we took the train to Joensuu. This is […]