In the past two weeks I've been peeking in at every bakery/pastry shop I walk by to see their Christmas Logs or Bûches de Noël. It is the...

The sustainable Christmas market features fair trade vendors from Africa, Palestine, India, and other countries, as well as local...

Today we made one of my favorite French desserts: the succès au chocolat or "the chocolate success". It was invented by pastry chef...

The Christmas markets or marchés de Noël are in full swing in Grenoble. With Christmas music and lots of lights, the mood is festive. The...

With a population of 22 million and a week to visit our daughter in this remarkable city, the following pictures give only a glimpse of...

There are so many bakeries to choose from and so many bread options. After trying several bakeries in the neighborhood, I generally go...

Like bakeries, there are so many cafés to choose from. I have not become a regular at any one café in town, probably because our...

The making of a modern day cobble stone street. Art work and precision! Doors of Lyon "Do not go on the grass"—in a park Self-serve bike...

More accurately, these are the doors to apartments on one street in Grenoble—the street Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The street is named after...

So this is the question: How do you capture this city in a blog post? I could focus on monuments or cafés, or restaurants, or people, or...

When you look at beautiful pastries displayed in a pastry shop I wonder what kind of space they were made in and of course, the a-z of...

Visiting another city or country always involves, at least for me, going into grocery stores and bakeries. We were visiting friends for...

Lyon, France's second largest city and capital of the region we live in (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes), is located on the junction of two rivers,...

Chamechaude is the highest summit in the Chartreuse Massif and the fourth most prominent mountain in France. This one is practically in...

Grenoble is surrounded by three mountain ranges: the Vercors, the Chartreuse Mountains, and the Belledonne. Grenoble and its environs has...

For an apartment dweller, a park is a beautiful thing! It becomes your back yard where you read your book, talk on your phone, meet up...

These pictures are courtesy Otto Selles who captured a wide view of the city when we arrived. The city of Grenoble is very flat but...

Our day started early to catch an 8:30 bus to a mountain range--the Chartreuse mountains, about 25k from Grenoble. In a short time we...

Advertisements have often had English words on them, but now you will find shops/restaurants with English names as well.

The plan for the day was to visit the Domaine de Vizille, a majestic castle situated on a very large park at the foot of the Alps. The...