[Here’s a draft I started writing in January, just after we returned from England, and then let collect Internet dust until now. I have tried to remember our trip accurately, but I’m sure I’ve forgotten lots of the details. Anyway, better late than never, right?]
We have returned from Corsica. We went hiking every day, tried regional specialties like brocciu and vin de myrthe, stuck our feet in the Mediterranean, met local characters on the bus and saw hundreds of lizards. It was great.
The rest of my pictures are on flickr, as usual, and Joe’s will be available once he goes […]
Joe and I went to Grenoble for our long weekend. There was snow, as you can see, so Joe’s desire to hike in a snowy forest was finally satisfied. We hiked up to a river called–no joke–La Pissarde. There were waterfalls and snowballs.
Other moments:
(1) Tartiflette followed by chocolate fondue at La Fondue. […]
We here in Apartment 8 suffer from an Internet addiction. You might be surprised to hear this since I almost never blog. But one of the symptoms of my addiction is that I never use the Internet to do anything useful or good, like keeping in touch with my friends using something other […]
It’s like if I said “We’re having pasta for dinner tonight, but I’m not going to tell you what vegetable we’re using. Surprise! It’s tomato!” It’s that kind of surprise.
What I’m trying to say is, you’re going to get a tomato cake.
Said Joe, as he was leaving on a secret mission to retrieve a birthday […]
So last Wednesday, having just barely unpacked from Morocco, we threw some long underwear in our backpacks and rushed to the train station in the grey drizzle. (Somehow, we almost always end up rushing to the train station, no matter how well we plan. It’s also usually my fault…) Anyway, a few hours later, we […]
Anyone know what kind of bird this is? Joe and I saw it when we were walking back into town from a nearby lake called Lac Kir (sadly, it is not full of cassis liqueur). The bird was just hanging out, fishing, didn’t really seem to notice or care that we were exclaiming […]
We have returned from our lovely weekend in the Jura, and I am tired and a little bit sore. Despite this, Joe and I have both already uploaded our photos.
We took two nice hikes–one to see the Château de Joux, and one to a viewpoint close to the Franco-Swiss border called Le Grand Taureau […]
Also, Joe and I are going to go to Morocco in February and we’re going to do this and stay somewhere like this and Joe is looking over my shoulder making me feel ridiculous about everything I type here, but I am so excited I could jump up and down.
Saturday we took the train down to Lyon to see the city and the fête des lumières, which has nothing to do with Chanukah. The city surpassed its reputation as boring industrial center–we enjoyed the Roman ruins and the basilica on the hill, and we most especially enjoyed our lunch.
Lyon is sometimes called the […]