We booked a newly and very nicely renovated studio apartment on the sixth and uppermost floor of the apartment building in Roche Béranger in Chamrousse 1750 for three night this past weekend. We drove there early Friday evening and returned this Monday morning so that we could have two full […]
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 […]
The day following our first hike we took an extended weekend off from work — Monday was the French National Day — and visited Tomi’s family’s summer house on the island in Viljolahti, about a 22-kilometer drive and 10-minute boat ride away. The lake’s water level was so low that […]
We spent two weeks at Tomi’s parents’ house in Kangaslampi. These weeks were the most relaxing time of our vacation/workation; we didn’t need to be anywhere particular, and we didn’t need to do anything special. We went for early morning runs, then worked through the day, watch tennis and athletics, […]
We only spent one night at Tomi’s family’s summer house. In hindsight, after learning that the internet worked there just fine, we should have spent more time there. On the other hand, spending all those rainy and thundestormy days on the small island would have been a lousy idea, since […]
We spent the second week at Tomi’s parents’ house in Kangaslampi in Eastern Finland. Kangaslampi is another Finnish commune on the brink of extinction — the school was closed this summer. Its only hope is to cater to Summer tourism and visitors who have their Summer houses in the area. […]
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. […]
For this year’s Summer vacation we spent two week in the southern part of the central massif doing some relaxed hiking, visiting picturesque old villages, and doing just a tiny bit of running. On our way there we spent one night in Orange (Vaucluse), and then two nights in Saint-Ambroix […]
The design capital of France truly disappointed us. Ever since we drove through the central Saint-Étienne a couple of years ago, and got somewhat lost there, I have wanted to visit the city with more time. The city was filthy, filthier than the capital, if it even is possible: there […]