As mentioned in the previous post we did not drive home from Narbonne in one day, because a seven-hour drive is quite tiresome for both the driver and the passenger, and it is definitely too much sitting for one day. Instead we stayed overnight in Nyons at about halfway point. […]
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 […]
How (or why) did we decide to visit Bourg-en-Bresse in Ain department? Just recently our supermarket has introduced new chili sauces of brand Bressico that are made of “piment de Bresse” (chili of Bresse), cultivated in the region since 16th century. The pepper used to be popular in the area […]
On one of our hikes in the Summer last year we saw this strange white building in the forest. When back home we checked the map and the searched the internet, and found out what this curious architectural project, built in 1966, was. Here you can read all about it, […]
We had two travel days left in our Interrail Global Passes (10 days of traveling in two months) from the July’s train travels that needed to be used by the end of August, so we decided to utilize them this past extended weekend (+ a couple of extra days) traveling […]
We did not stay but one day in Helsinki both on our trip in and out from Finland. That was quite enough to squeeze in a morning run in a refreshing temperature, pay a visit to an optician to choose and order our new glasses, and then pick them up […]
After a sleepless night at a sizzling hotel room in Grenoble, we spent five hours on trains to Firenze. We chose to go to Grenoble a night before the start of the trip, since our train to Chambéry left so early. There we had a one-hour wait for the train […]
This Summer’s vacation/workation was a combination of train travel with an Interrail Global Pass, and flights from Italy to Finland and back. First, we took a train to Firenze (*) where we spent three days before continuing to Pisa by train, and flying to Helsinki. From Helsinki we took a […]
We returned to the Southern Vercors for this extended Pentecost holiday weekend to make up what we missed last December. Oh boy it was different! Despite the somewhat chilly and strong wind, the weather was perfect, warm and sunny, and neither of us was sick. We stayed at an Airbnb […]