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For the Nth time, this evening's main TV documentary showed me an album of glimpses of my extraordinary "back yard", the Verco...

Last July, when my Choranche neighbors brought me home from the hospital in Romans after my stupid accident [ display ], Tineke dashed into...

Steve Jobs (who's not the man designated by my title) often seems to be saying that, if only web developers were to get profoundly inv...

In the charming village of St-Jean-en-Vercors, Roger and Teresa have created a high-quality gite, called Vélo Vercors , for cycling enthus...

Please excuse me for borrowing a couple of terms from elementary mathematics: — A relation is said to be reflexive if it works in both dire...

A few days ago, in my article entitled Dark excursion [ display ] , I referred to tragic events on the Vercors plateau in July 1944, culmin...

It doesn't seem right to describe my drive up onto the Vercors plateau yesterday afternoon as "dark", because the landscape wa...

Towards the end of the morning, I started to drive down towards Pont-en-Royans with the intention of posting a letter. No sooner did I reach...

This weekend, after rubble from the demolished rock at Choranche was cleared away [ display ] , the road leading up to the Vercors plateau w...

For drivers, primarily, of course. But country roads in France are used too by tons of cyclists, both with and without motors. I've even...

This weekend, my daughter brought the sunshine and blue skies to the Vercors, which is rare at this time of the year. Yesterday, we went out...

A few years ago, the nearby mountain range was the setting of a charming film about a girl, fed up with life in Paris, who decides to move t...