In November we have had two back-to-back long weekends, All Saints Day a week ago and the Armistice this past weekend. We spent the former in Lyon, and this time escaped to the Vercors mountains, maybe the first time since we moved to the opposite direction from Grenoble. The plan […]
I use various filters and a special plugin in Facebook to filter out advertisements and sponsored posts from my feed. For some reason an ad for The Art of the Brick, a LEGO® art exhibition by an American artist (and a former lawyer) Nathan Sawaya, got through. We didn’t think […]
Exceptionally, we did not spend the first day in the town, but went for a hike from the port of Vannes (I don’t remember why we made this decision — maybe the weather forecast for that day looked more promising). Actually we had planned a lot longer hike (~18K) that […]
There are a number of well-marked walking/hiking trails starting from Carnac, ranging from 5 to 17 kilometers (this is the one we did the day before with a little shortcut making it ~16K). Today’s walk was an easy 10K by the coastline around the Saint-Colomban peninsula; it had one rocky […]
Carnac is known for its rows of menhirs (standing stones) and dolmens (portal tombs), but before we started our hike to them, we made short tour in the town. As said, Carnac is known for its sites of rows of standing stones (in some other parts of the world similar […]
Then it was time to move on again. Our next destination was Quimper, which we chose for no particular reason other than it being smaller than the port town of Brest. On our way to Quimper we stopped by in the town of Huelgoat (Finistère) to hike in its mythical […]
This is short post about our first day in Rennes, the capital of Bretagne in Ille-et-Vilaine department, mostly from city center and Parc du Thabor. On the second day we visited Prairies Saint-Martin, a large nature park North of town. The pictures of this parkon both the town’s and tourism […]
As much as I love the landscape of the Massif Central, I think the Matheysine Plateau in the French Prealps in Southern Isère is one of the most scenic areas I’ve visited in France, with the silhouette of the magestic Grande Tête de l’Obiou as a backprop. Soon after returning […]
Usually in Helsinki we stay in quiet, old neighborhoods as close to the city center as possible. That’s what we did this time for our first stay, but for the final stay we booked an Airbnb apartment in Vuosaari, the Eastern terminus of the metro line. Early in our vacation […]