Next our rental vehicle took us to the small town of Carhaix-Plouguer (Finistère), our home for the next three nights. We arrived early and had quite a long wait before we could check in at our Airbnb apartment. For some reason several hosts in this trip were quite inflexible with […]
We spent this year’s Fall vacation in Bretagne. During the two-week trip we only saw a fraction of the region, though, and mostly the central and Southern part of it. Nothing was planned ahead of time, but the theme of the vacation turned out to be various man-sculpted or man-erected […]
In this summer’s vacation we spent three weeks in our native country. We spent the middle week working, and for the first and the last week we planned visits to lesser known (at least to us) nature destinations both in Helsinki and in the Savonia region of Finland. We also […]
May is the month of many mays: it may shine, it may rain, and it may even snow, and it may be cold or warm (borrowed from an Instagram post). Still May is one of the most optimal months for vacation here, since the weather is usually quite good, not […]
I think that every year around this time I write that we’ve had the worst ever winter since we moved to France ten years ago. Again this year it has been mostly cloudy and we’ve received a lot of rain. Of course, this is good to ground water levels and […]
When planning where and how to spend our 20th wedding anniversary, we considered several options: various destinations in France and Europe but also something as extreme as the place where we got married, namely Bloomington, Indiana. Since we had just returned from the two-week year-end vacation of train traveling in […]
Our first day in Mende (Lozère) was cloudy and drizzly, and it was the only such day on our vacation; the rest were blessed with plenty of sunshine. We climbed to Le Croix de Saint-Privat located on the top of the mountain Mont-Mimat (1068m). On our way to the cross […]
We had a very sunny January, but thereafter the Spring has been dull with cloudy days and a lot of rain. Therefore, we have not done much hiking. We started a marathon training program instead, this time with a more modest goal in mind; we have been following a sub […]
This past July was the second driest month in France since they started to keep record in 1959. The driest was March 1961. The drought has not only affected crops and the nature in general — most vegetation has turned into vivid Fall colors already — but together with the […]