Our race season ended yesterday with a half-marathon race on the bicycle path ‘La Docle Via’, from Saint-Saveur-du-Montagut to La-Voulte-sur-Rhône in Ardèche. La Dolce Via, built on a former railroad bed, follows the river Eyrieux, and it is probably the most scenic route we have been on, this time on […]
This past long weekend concluded our two-weekend dress rehearsal for the bicycle touring season of 2026. We encountered almost every aspect — good or bad — one commonly encounters on tours. We rode in heavy rain and chilly wind, but also under a scorching sun in the beginning of a […]
Our bicycle touring has been on hiatus for a few years for various reasons, but we are resuming this much loved recreational activity this Summer. We are planning a 2 to 3-week tour later in the Summer or early Fall, probably La Via Allier — a new route following the […]
Our return flight from Madrid took off about thirty minutes after the scheduled time, but still landed in Lyon on time. Since bus connections from the airport to city center did not look very convenient, we were lazy and took a taxi to hotel Victoria in Perrache quarter on the […]
Finally, we had a proper winter vacation, with snow and skiing and all. First, we spent a week in the village of Le Rosier in Vallée de la Clarée in Hautes-Alpes (our third time there in three months) running and skiing, and then three days in Entre-Deux-Guiers on the Chartreuse […]
… after two years, that is! This short post is to share some pictures from our extempore skiing adventure in Vallée de la Clarée in Hautes-Alpes. A couple of weeks after we returned from our year-end vacation there, having not skied a single meter because of the snow situation, a […]
As mentioned in the previous post we did not drive home from Narbonne in one day, because a seven-hour drive is quite tiresome for both the driver and the passenger, and it is definitely too much sitting for one day. Instead we stayed overnight in Nyons at about halfway point. […]
How (or why) did we decide to visit Bourg-en-Bresse in Ain department? Just recently our supermarket has introduced new chili sauces of brand Bressico that are made of “piment de Bresse” (chili of Bresse), cultivated in the region since 16th century. The pepper used to be popular in the area […]
On one of our hikes in the Summer last year we saw this strange white building in the forest. When back home we checked the map and the searched the internet, and found out what this curious architectural project, built in 1966, was. Here you can read all about it, […]