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 […]
The snow situation near here has been quite poor this winter, so we booked our last week of winter vacation in Les Saisies, Savoie department, which has been much more fortunate with snow. Today our plans received a major blow as following the prime minister’s speech yesterday, the ski resorts […]
This past weekend was expected to be one of the last, if not the last one, with good, almost Summer-like weather: plenty of sunshine and warm daytime temperatures. So, we planned a hike in South-western Vercors on Sunday. This was a hike we’ve thought about for a while, since we […]
This past Sunday (23.6.) we returned to the Southern Vercors in attempt to hike the route we started a year ago but were forced to quit because of rain and strong wind. This time we were much luckier — it was all sunshine and warm, but not too hot, with […]