We had another brilliant idea of riding one of the remaining sections of ViaRhôna that we have not visited before. We took an early morning train to Annecy and then spent over 20 kilometers to get out of the town and its vicinity. There were supposed to be two bike […]
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 […]
It seems that this may become another bad skiing season; it has been too warm and it has not rained enough for the snow to accumulate, or it has come down as rain. This past weekend we took a chance and booked a trip to Briançon (with its elevation of […]
A day before the weather forecast promised sun and warm temperatures for Saturday (May 26), but we did not get any, or much of either. Instead we had strong gusty wind and cold rain on this first Spring hike in Southern Vercors, where we have not been before. It was […]
This hike was quite different from the last weekend’s in so many ways. First, we were much better prepared for the chilly weather. Second, we had a lot of sun as we climbed to the top of the mountain staying mostly on open slopes (which also exposed us to strong […]
We moved to our new home on December 16, and a couple of days later left the sea of boxes behind to spend two weeks on the interrail trip in Europe (there will be another blog post on it). When back in early January we were hopeful of getting internet […]
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 […]