This post is about a private botanic garden in Générargues, Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon specializing in bamboos, but it also has a small Japanese style garden. The garden was started by a dedicated horticulturalist Edward Mazel in 1856. He was interested cultivating plants that are robust against any environmental conditions, and started […]
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 […]
Our weekend plans had to be revised since I broke my fourth toe on Friday night. So, no running and long hikes for a while. I did manage to try on new MTB shoes, so next week’s bicycle tour is still in the plans. Since the weather was so gorgeous, […]
Université Grenoble Alpes’ alpine botanic garden at Col Du Lautaret closed for the winter last weekend, so we thought it was about the time to pay a visit on its last day of opening, although the season was already over — there were not too many plants flowering left. Also […]
Park hopping Green corridor, the base of the former Malaysian (KTM) railroad that used to run from Tanjong Pagar railway station in South of Singapore to Woodland checkpoint in North, is one of the few wild natural spaces for trail running and bicycling in Singapore that is not manicured and […]