firewood for winter

there really is a cultural difference between the Swiss and French despite common language. you just dont see this level of almost anal retentive obsession with detail in France. village between Niederweningen and Villigen

lost in the Isere back country

tony moxon found STRAVA very useful when venturing out without a map and trying to add 10 k to a 43 k loop. thoughts of following what i thought was N, S , E , W foundered on decisions that small lanes and narrow roads threw up. phone wouldnt connect to Google Maps but STRAVA kept going beautifully.

late last year a very nice rainy day

sometimes the rain comes down so much you wonder how the road engineers strike

a balance between saftey through adequate drainage and cost of the road. if the fixed cameras automatically reset in bad weather and were able to take pictires in the gloom , that would be a way to slow down traffic and hence not require such big investment in being able to drive at excessive speed in bad weather.