We are going to do a four-day bicycle tour next (long) weekend in Southern Isère, and were planning to do the last “practice” ride this Sunday. Since recent days have been and still are very warm with strong gusty wind, even if the official heat alert ended a few days […]
We had a lovely week-long vacation in Spain. Our two goals were to run the Zurich Rock’n’Roll Marathon in Madrid after 11 years, and visit our friends in Chinchón whom, likewise, we had not seen in 11 years. Except for a couple of navigational glitches, problems with locking the car, […]
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. […]
We booked our year-end skiing vacation in Les Alberts in Vallée de la Clarée in Hautes-Alpes well ahead of time when skiing conditions still (or already) looked very promising (the same place, but not the same apartment, we stayed in December last year and then again in March) . Then […]
The past week ended our winter season, and it also ended the winter sports season — more on that at the end of the post. We returned to La Vallée de la Clarée in Hautes-Alpes for one week, since our year-end vacation there was a disaster (we both were sick […]
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 […]
Pont du Gard This was the last brutally windy day of our vacation. On the other hand the wind was blessing since the afternoon became really hot (it was +29°C when we returned to the car). Our destination of the day was Pont du Gard, an ancient Roman aqueduct bridge […]
Les Angles (Gard) On the third day we wanted to avoid driving (and more sitting), so we searched for hikes in the neighborhood, and found an extensive network of trails starting just behind the house. After 200 meters we came up to an interesting cave system ‘Carrere du Trou de […]