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Ski de Fond au Clair de Lune
Last Friday night I went on an evening ski trip with a bunch of guys from the French church that we partner with plus three of us from our church. {tip of the hat to Justin who graciously risked carrying his camera so that I was free to have the chance to fall, break nothing…
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Elevation
It’s cool and rainy here today. Well, at least it is here at our house, it’s snowing just a little bit up from us. That difference is one of the things that struck me as truly strange when we first arrived here – how important elevation is to your daily life. Pretty much…
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Elevation
It’s cool and rainy here today. Well, at least it is here at our house, it’s snowing just a little bit up from us. That difference is one of the things that struck me as truly strange when we first arrived here – how important elevation is to your daily life. Pretty much…
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Learning quite well
The other day Micah and I were driving home having dropped the older two off after their (two hour) lunch break. As we approached the village boulangerie he piped up from the back seat “papa – stop at the boulangerie and I will get a baguette all by myself” Wow. How much he’s learned already. His grasp…
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Learning quite well
The other day Micah and I were driving home having dropped the older two off after their (two hour) lunch break. As we approached the village boulangerie he piped up from the back seat “papa – stop at the boulangerie and I will get a baguette all by myself” Wow. How much he’s learned already. His grasp…
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There is a new type of train service here in France. They have decided – it would seem – that riding on the regular old TGV is no longer cool enough for 18-35 year olds. The solution: a new way to travel. The iDTGV. Tickets are only sold online. There is separate boarding procedure. Different prices.…
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How did we get cover the nearly 1200km for a round trip to Paris and still make it worth while to only be there one day. This is how. The TGV. Train à Grande Vitesse- literally “Train at Great Speed” no kidding. This would be meeting another train heading in the opposite direction. Us leaving…
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iZap
There is a new type of train service here in France. They have decided – it would seem – that riding on the regular old TGV is no longer cool enough for 18-35 year olds. The solution: a new way to travel. The iDTGV. Tickets are only sold online. There is separate boarding procedure. Different…
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Train at Great Speed
How did we get cover the nearly 1200km for a round trip to Paris and still make it worth while to only be there one day. This is how. The TGV. Train à Grande Vitesse- literally “Train at Great Speed” no kidding. This would be meeting another train heading in the opposite direction. Us leaving…
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Paris
We had a very quick trip to Paris – it was a mere 24 hours and 8 minutes from the arrival of our train on Friday – until our train pulled away from the platform on Saturday. While it wasn’t tonnes of time – it was enough to see and do some things. Having never…
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Paris
We had a very quick trip to Paris – it was a mere 24 hours and 8 minutes from the arrival of our train on Friday – until our train pulled away from the platform on Saturday. While it wasn’t tonnes of time – it was enough to see and do some things. Having never…
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l’Opera The reason we went to Paris this weekend was for a chance to see my cousin Nathan singing the role of Achilla in GF Haendel’s opera “Giulio Cesare”. When describing this opera Le Opéra National de Paris claims “Never was Handel’s melodic genius more effulgent: the score contains some of his brightest jewels…” Sounds…
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l’Opera
The reason we went to Paris this weekend was for a chance to see my cousin Nathan singing the role of Achilla in GF Haendel’s opera “Giulio Cesare”. When describing this opera Le Opéra National de Paris claims “Never was Handel’s melodic genius more effulgent: the score contains some of his brightest jewels…” Sounds good…
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Today What did we do today? Well I’m glad you asked. It started with Matea getting on board the vommit-express at 3AM (which had stops every hour on the hour) and not giving that up until noon. However it was nice and Sunny – Susan and Mom went for a long hike – while my…
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Today
What did we do today? Well I’m glad you asked. It started with Matea getting on board the vommit-express at 3AM (which had stops every hour on the hour) and not giving that up until noon. However it was nice and Sunny – Susan and Mom went for a long hike – while my boys…
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I am powerless in this situation. So (as previously discussed) our car is an Opel Zafira. Opel is a German manufacturer – which is good – because that’s about the only positive thing this car has going for it. From what I understand, it’s the frame and engine from the Opel Astra – a…
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I am powerless in this situation.
So (as previously discussed) our car is an Opel Zafira. Opel is a German manufacturer – which is good – because that’s about the only positive thing this car has going for it. From what I understand, it’s the frame and engine from the Opel Astra – a small 4 door car. This car form…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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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
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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…