We spent a lovely Easter holiday weekend in Les Saisies, a family ski resort in Savoie department. This also marked the end of the Winter (skiing) season 2018/19 for us, since Les Saisies was practically one of the last stations to still be open this late in the Spring. We […]
We finished our Winter vacation testing our new snowshoes in Montagnes de Lans on Vercors. We were quite happily surprised that there was still so much snow, although not perfect for snowshoeing. We walked to Combe Oursière and back, total of 6.3 kilometers with the ascent (and descent) of 263 […]
Again this year we booked a week-long winter vacation in Serre Chevalier valley and Le Monetier-les-Bains (actually the same apartment we stayed last Spring). The week had a catastrophic start as Tei fell ill on the first evening, and kept hugging the porcelain for the whole night with practically no […]
This past Sunday’s (24.2.) hiking trip took us to an abandoned ski station of St. Honoré 1500 above the Matheysine plain. We had seen the buildings of the old station from the valley below many times when driving towards La Mure or back, wondering what they were; they looked like […]
Because we have concentrated on skiing this winter — we started the season early and have went skiing at least once a week, since the conditions have been quite good — we have not done any hiking. One third of the country having started their winter vacation this week we […]
This is the second week in a row when we take the midweek off from work and go skiing to Vercors plain to profit from the nice weather the fullest, since this winter — especially during the weekends — has been quite bleak. However, this will be changing since the […]
We spent four lovely days in Northern Italy in the province called South Tirol or Südtirol in German or Alto Adige in Italian. Even if it is located in Italy, practically everyone spoke German, and all signs and place names were both in Italian and German. It took us one […]
For our second week of Winter vacation we returned to Grenoble. The snow situation was no better around the town, but there was a strange meteorological phenomenon going on, known as inversion: the temperature increased with altitude causing the low-hanging clouds to block pollution close to the ground. For the […]
We spent one week (Dec 17-24) Winter vacationing in Serre Chevalier valley in Hautes-Alpes, a two-hour bus ride South from Grenoble. We stayed at chalet studio in La Salle les Alpes/Villeneuve at the altitude of 1400 meters. This sad little snowperson epitomizes our winter break. It was a lovely week, […]