This year we returned again to the Briançonnais region in Hautes-Alpes for our winter/spring vacation. However, we did not stay in the Serre Chevalier valley as we usually have done, but booked the accommodation in the village of Villar-Saint-Pancrace in a different river valley, namely that of Durance, which by […]
When planning where and how to spend our 20th wedding anniversary, we considered several options: various destinations in France and Europe but also something as extreme as the place where we got married, namely Bloomington, Indiana. Since we had just returned from the two-week year-end vacation of train traveling in […]
Finally it was time to move to our last overnight destination, Aubenas (Ardèche), the gateway to the Ardèche mountains. To be clear, we did not plan any of the vacation before traveling, but booked only few days ahead as we went. Only the first night in Orange was booked beforehand. […]
We spent a week in Crest in central Drôme at the foot of Southern Vercors range, hiking in surrounding areas, but also going for a couple morning runs. We like this area of Drôme for multiple reasons: its landscape is an interesting mixture of forested mountains and Mediterranean scenery. Also […]
Another easy hike (11.6K in 3h 50mins, D+/D- 720m) deep in the Chartreuse range. The first half was quite boring, since we mostly walked in the forest and did not have many views to the surrounding mountains. The second part was much more interesting. It also traveled in the forest, […]
We have not done much hiking this Spring since we were training for last weekend’s half-marathon race, which only Tomi ran. So, the good weather streak still continuing, we were looking forward to some easy Easter weekend hikes, the first to a waterfall on Plateau-des-Petites-Roches in Sain-Hilaire-du-Touvet on Sunday (6.30K […]
It is the time for another post of our hiking holidays in the French Alps. This is mainly just to share pictures, since nothing exciting happened during those hikes; we barely saw another human being during them. The most thrilling events were the goat encounter on the second day, and […]
It has been a long time … and nothing really has happened. After a miserable Spring (weather-wise) the Summer has finally arrived; the daytime temperatures rise almost to +30°C, but mornings are still cool and comfortable. This is nice after so many cloudy weeks and a lot of rain; early […]
Three weeks into the third lockdown, and we have hiked probably in all river valleys on the Western slopes of the Belledonne range that are within about 10 kilometers from us. Yesterday’s hike (8.4km in 2h 43mins, D+/D- 450m) took us from the village of St-Mury-Monteymond to Le Croix De […]