Summer? Or Grenoble's spring...

So, this is my second blogging attempt of the day.

I was sitting on a bench using wifi provided by the city of Grenoble tapping away on my iPod. It was going super well, that is until the internet crashed and I lost everything I had already written. It was somewhat frustrating but the sun is shining so it was hard to stay angry.


It is currently 21 degree out, in mid-March. I'm not sure if this is due to global warming or the weird pressure system that is created by all the surrounding mountains but the weather had been like this for the past while. Sadly, the temperature doesn't really remain constant throughout the day, this morning it was 3 degrees. Ideally I would have two outfits. One that I would wear from 8-11am and then again from 6pm onwards and a second outfit for the midday. For example when I set out this morning it was pretty chilly and I was comfortable wearing my wool winter coat. In a normal climate I would just have been able to unzip it and that would have been appropriate for the afternoon. IHowever, while I was waiting at the tram stop at 11am, I was way too warm and had to remove my coat. This afternoon I lay in the sun on one of the many lawn type areas at Rabot with some friends. Who knows, maybe I'll actually get a tan this year if I start in March. I already have a rather impressive watch tan so I can only hope that the trend will continue.

Even more surprising than this warm weather, is the fact the weather is consistently nice. It hasn't legitimately rained in quite a long time. I think the last time was early last week, and it only rained during the night. Definitely a contrast from the wet coast. The only downside to all this beautiful weather is that it's not very good for the snow. I opted to not go skiing this week or weekend, partially because I was feeling a little bit sick, and partially because I imagine that the snow will be lacking. I've already experienced skiing on slush and it isn't an experience I'll be rushing to repeat. That being said, I am going to head down into Grenoble tomorrow and purchase a book I've been eying up for a while that covers all of the local hiking trails. Now that most of the snow is melted on the low altitude mountains/hills surrounding the city it's time to work on climbing up inclines instead of zooming down. It'll also be cool to see the reverse view, instead of looking up at the mountains in  awe I will soon be gawking at them from amongst their peers.

Aside from that, not much is going on. I'm currently working on my travel plans for Easter break (I get 11 days off) which involve Peripignan, (south-east of France), Barcelona and Morocco. At the moment I only know rough details, but I was invited by one of my friends to spend Easter with her. She has relatives who live in Peripignan, who are gracious enough to have two guests join them for Easter weekend. From Peripignan we are going to Barcelona for a couple of days and then onto Marrakesh(central Morocco) via Ryan Air. We don't have a return flight yet, but hopefully that will all change tonight as we have a flight eyed up that we want to book that flies. It flies from Agadir (coastal Morocco) to Lyon. Aside from that I don't really know what we are doing, but I will definitely update you all about what's going to happen because I'm pretty excited about this trip and probably couldn't keep my travel plans to myself if I tried.

Also, as a charity update my earning were rather stagnant for a time. I imagine that was completely my fault because I think that earnings are largely dependent on how frequently you post as advertisers don't want to put ads on a Blog that people aren't likely to visit. Now that I have re-started blogging more regularly I have nearly reached the $8 dollar mark. Good news, because it would have been a little embarrassing to send a charity $4.56 (my earnings as of 5 days ago).