Our winter vacation plans were messed up with uncertainties involved in the apartment sale project, but once the date for signatures was fixed (see the previous post), we booked one week in our favorite place, Serre Chevalier Valley in Hautes-Alpes for a skiing vacation. But then we started seeing worrisome […]
When returning from our first winter vacation in Les Saisies the snow situation in the French Alps was not too good. We did not want to risk another week in a ski resort without anything to do — with too little snow for skiing, or too much ice, slush, or […]
This past Sunday (11.10) we went for another scenic hike on Eastern balcony of the Vercors range (11km in 3h 45mins, D+/D- 720m). Once again we miscalculated the effect of strong wind on a higher and somewhat exposed altitude. When we started in Prélenfrey (Le Gua) at 11am. it was […]
Let us see if this past weekend was what is left of the Summer in the French Alps. This week is expected to bring a lot of rain and temperature drop of 15° Celsius, even snow below 1000m of altitude! What a Summer it has been! The whole corona virus […]
In August we toured Loire river valley on bicycles for almost three weeks (including driving there and back), altogether 800 kilometers in 14 days of riding. Because of a glitch on my Google Drive account I have not been able to download all the photos from the drive, so I […]
Another visit to the ghost ski station of Saint-Honoré 1500. The previous one was on winter last year when we started a hike to Lac-de-Charlet (1921m) but had to turn back because of the icy snow conditions. Today’s hike was nothing like that. Of course it wasn’t since we are […]
Welcome to the second part of our Auvergne adventure. The weather continued to pamper us. Day 7: Orcival and La Roche Branlante We were on our way to Mont-Dore and Puy-de -Sancy, when we decided to visit the little idyllic, albeit very touristy, town of Orcival we had seen a […]
This Saturday took us to The Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette (Sanctuaire Notre-Dame de La Salette), the site of the Marian apparition to two children in 1846 in La Salette-Fallavaux. The Sanctuary, which has a Basilica, a Chapel, and a hotel for pilgrims, is located at about 1800 […]
One month ago on March 17 at 12pm. France started a full lockdown that allows going out only for necessary shopping, seeing a doctor, or exercising for one hour, once a day, within one kilometer from home. So far we have gone grocery shopping once or twice a week, and […]