After we returned home from our vacation in the Central Massif we still had the car available for a couple of days. So, we tried to figure out what could be an interesting one night destination within a reasonable distance, and driveable on country roads with our limping car (we […]
From Grenoble, we took the bicycle route V63 (that starts in Annecy) following the river Isère to where it joins the river Rhône, and then a few more kilometers on ViaRhôna to Valence. We rode 122.10km in 6h52mins (average 17.7kph, max 33.9kph), with 983m of ascent and 1077m of descent. […]
Not much has been done yet to clean things up after last weekend’s flooding. Yesterday’s running race was rerouted to avoid the tree debris left behind by the receding water. The road and some of the pedestrian paths running along the river are still covered with thick mud.
The water level in the river Isère is very high after yesterday’s full day of rain, and more rain is forecast for this afternoon. In the middle picture below, there is a street totally submerged on the left side of the river. The water is thick brown and full of […]