Antipodes

The Cournouze is like an old lady (or a young lady, for that matter) who has wrapped her shoulders in a white woolen shawl. Click to...

At this time of the year, rare species have started to bloom on the slopes of Gamone. The long thorns of the ice tree are as sharp as...

Yesterday afternoon, I had made plans with Serge Bellier to drive to a hardware store in St-Marcellin, today, to pick up an Invicta Bradfor...

Snow hit us massively during the night. Nobody can say we weren't warned. TV weather reports have become amazingly precise. Yester...

Innocent frozen French citizens are asking: "Is all that talk about global warming really serious? Aren't we rather experiencing th...

Winter has hit us earlier than usual in France (the winter solstice only arrives on Tuesday), and we've had exceptionally big snowfalls....

I've had an outage of the Internet and my house telephone for the last couple of days. Funnily, I don't think this breakdown had any...

Last night, Tineke and Serge invited me along to their place for New Year's champagne and dinner: a delicious Alsatian sauerkraut prep...

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