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 […]
This certainly has been a bizarre Spring. When we were in South Tyrol in Italy attending the biathlon world championship in February, we already started to hear and read about the alarming rate of new coronavirus cases in Lombardia region in Northern Italy. We were not really worried, even if […]
After returning from the Biathlon World Cup in Antholz-Anterselva last Spring, we bought tickets to this year’s World Championships, and began a long wait to revisit this lovely area in South Tyrol (Alto Adige) in Northern Italy. This time it was quite different, though: there were far more races and […]
Old railway lines make perfect bike paths: they go from town center to town center, or from village to village, and even if not completely flat, they have gentle grades. The US has its Rails-To-Trails project, which is a nation-wide system, and France has La Dolce Via in the Ardèche […]
We had another brilliant idea of riding one of the remaining sections of ViaRhôna that we have not visited before. We took an early morning train to Annecy and then spent over 20 kilometers to get out of the town and its vicinity. There were supposed to be two bike […]
This is one final post of our trip from Marseille and Nice to Finnish Lapland and back to Nice, concentrating solely on food (some of it) we ate during our travels. We ate a lot of fish, especially in Finland since it is so good and reasonably priced. We did […]
Saariselkä is more than thousand kilometers North of Helsinki and it took us 12 hours to get there; first by train to Oulu (5h30m), where we changed to another train for Rovaniemi (2h15m). From there we took a bus to Saariselkä (3h). We arrived late in Lapland but it was […]
This is a quick post about our weekend trip to Vienne (Isère) to Joan Baez’s farewell tour concert “Fare Thee Well”. We bought the ticket well in advance, but decided on the last minute — we had contemplated the idea before, though — that it would be a great bicycle […]
This post is extempore and inspired by our recent stay in Vienne. Since 2013 we’ve almost exclusively stayed at Airbnb accommodations during our travels, and we’ve done it in many countries: Finland, France, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, Romania, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and UK. While […]