• Untitled post 4585

    It’s been quite cool here for a whole week -but yesterday was rather sunny, so we headed out for a little walk.  There is a small mountain called Les Quatre Seigneurs that sits directly between us and the main valley where Grenoble lies.  It’s what we look directly at from our place, with the Vercors…

  • Les Quatre Seigneurs

    It’s been quite cool here for a whole week -but yesterday was rather sunny, so we headed out for a little walk. There is a small mountain called Les Quatre Seigneurs that sits directly between us and the main valley where Grenoble lies.  It’s what we look directly at from our place, with the Vercors…

  • CHARTREUSE.

    CHARTREUSE.

    Since Wednesday is not a school day (see previous post for details) we had the day to do some more exploring. The distillery of Les Peres Chartreuse in the town of Voiron, just up the valley from us so we thought it would be a good destination for a day trip. This is the place where…

  • Untitled post 4606

    First Week with Grandma Here! Susan’s mom got here last Monday (narrowly escaping sub -30 temperatures and +30cm of snow in Edmonton)  so I thought I better let you know what we’ve been up to. The weather has been quite nice the last week – so we’ve tried to make the most of it (before…

  • First Week with Grandma Here!

    Susan’s mom got here last Monday (narrowly escaping sub -30 temperatures and +30cm of snow in Edmonton)  so I thought I better let you know what we’ve been up to. The weather has been quite nice the last week – so we’ve tried to make the most of it (before the imminent cold snap approaches starting tomorrow…

  • Things that I sorta knew would happen…

    but still seem strange. our youngest using “Oh la la” – and in a totally non-ironic, not satirical manner my kids not only correcting my pronunciation in French, but actually being unable to not laugh at it hearing the kids yell “the German’s are coming!” when they were playing outside and heard a siren

  • Things that I sorta knew would happen…

    but still seem strange. our youngest using “Oh la la” – and in a totally non-ironic, not satirical manner my kids not only correcting my pronunciation in French, but actually being unable to not laugh at it hearing the kids yell “the German’s are coming!” when they were playing outside and heard a siren

  • Untitled post 4616

    I’ve had an Epiphany Well, perhaps not an epiphany but we have celebrated the traditional festival of Epiphany (as in the Christian festival that is meant to recall Jesus Epiphany – becoming known/ manifested to the non-Jewish world through the three Magi – the “King’s” who came from ‘the East’  outside of Israel) – where the French (based on their Roman Catholic…

  • I’ve had an Epiphany

    Well, perhaps not an epiphany but we have celebrated the traditional festival of Epiphany (as in the Christian festival that is meant to recall Jesus Epiphany – becoming known/ manifested to the non-Jewish world through the three Magi – the “King’s” who came from ‘the East’  outside of Israel) – where the French (based on their Roman Catholic past) celebrate with a…

  • Doing Fine

    Just wanted to let you all know that I am still doing fine, am feeling just bruised and sore – as if i had a bad fall on my bike or something.  The day it happend  our neighbour told Susan that  she had seen almost this exact same thing when she was first practicing as…

  • January 2, 2011: the day I didn’t have a heart attack

    Yesterday morning at about 6:30 I woke up with pretty bad pain in my chest; left-hand side.  It was so bad that I basically lunged forward to sit up, as almost a reflex -and it got worse. It was then I realized that my chest was so tight and there was so much pain that I really…

  • Untitled post 4623

    Walk in the Woods The other day we went for a walk on the logging road not far from us.  It was a beautiful sunny day with an almost artificially blue sky. The sun lit up the snow that was hanging on the trees all around us. The sun was starrting to set behind the…