For the second week of our year-end vacation we escaped Grenoble that was plagued by inversion, a meteorological phenomenon in which low hanging clouds block the cold air underneath, while it is sunny and warm just few hundred meters higher. It was not only because of the temperature we got […]
We had a questionable honor of being invited to Helsinki for work-related reasons in late November. It is the time of the year that people living in Finland don’t particularly enjoy, griping all the time about darkness and the drab weather, but even less us expats consider a prime time […]
Saariselkä is more than thousand kilometers North of Helsinki and it took us 12 hours to get there; first by train to Oulu (5h30m), where we changed to another train for Rovaniemi (2h15m). From there we took a bus to Saariselkä (3h). We arrived late in Lapland but it was […]
We enjoyed the sunny and warm First of May hiking on the Vercors. This time our destination was a sightseeing platform Vertige des Cimes that extends a few meters over the edge of the mountain with about 300 meters drop below. It is an easy hike away from the […]
Our long runs have met some bad luck recently. Partly because of us, as we’ve been watching winter sports on TV, but today nature was against us. It was barely snowing when we left (after watching two and half sets of Djokovic-Murray Australian Open final for three hours), but just […]
… that my transition lenses wouldn’t turn black, or we couldn’t go running. We had our first (and last?) snow last night, but following a day of icy drizzle and rain, all the snow is gone now.