April 30th, 2010 | by John Lubbock | published in Features, Life & Culture
Want to impress your friends with your knowledge of Grenoble’s past? John Lubbock has condensed the history of the city into two short blogs so that you can show off about how much you know.
April 28th, 2010 | by James Dalrymple | published in Features, Interviews, Work & Study
Nearly one year on from their first meeting, Grenoble Life catches up with Kris Leroy, the American founder of Grenoble-based soft furnishings design company LEROY & SCARPA, France, previously Chic Throws.
April 27th, 2010 | by James Dalrymple | published in Features, Interviews
The April 25 English Talk Radio show features Garvin: a Franco-Welsh-Scots rock band from Grenoble. After only a little over a year together and they are already finishing the recording of their first album. A mix of English pop-rock, progressive and folk, they play two songs live in the studio for you!
April 22nd, 2010 | by James Dalrymple | published in Features, Info & Advice, Life & Culture
Without wireless in Grenoble? Don’t want to use an internet café or pay to buy a clé USB from SFR or Orange? Read on for sites of reliable and free internet access at various points throughout the city.
April 21st, 2010 | by Suzanne Bonnefond | published in Features, Life & Culture
Resident Grenoble Life photographer Suzanne Bonnefond presents another idea for a short expedition from Grenoble: “I suggest a trip to ‘Indiana Jones land’, just near the city, ‘les Gorges du Furon’ in Sassenage. Visitors are always impressed by the beauty of the place …
April 19th, 2010 | by James Dalrymple | published in Features, Interviews
The April 11 English Talk Radio show features Trudi Penkler, a psychologist, psychotherapist and ‘Intercultural Consultant’ with her own practice, Active Adaptation Counselling, in downtown Grenoble. The discussion is about third culture kids, particularly teenagers …
April 14th, 2010 | by Shonah Kennedy | published in Comment, Features
Grenoble Life’s Shonah Kennedy shares her experience of coming to the city on the “coat-tails” of her husband and discovering she was not the only woman in Grenoble who had temporarily placed their life on hold to be with the man of their dreams.
April 13th, 2010 | by Sara Maltaverne | published in Features, Work & Study
The Working Women’s Network of Grenoble (WWNG) will hold a Personal and Professional Development Seminar entitled “The Power of Feedback: Using Criticism Constructively” on Saturday, June 5, 2010 at Grenoble’s Mercure President hotel.
April 8th, 2010 | by christina.rebuffetbroadus | published in Features, Info & Advice, Life & Culture
Grenoble Life’s Christina Rebuffet-Broadus walks Les Halles Sainte Claire, Grenoble’s foremost covered market and former convent, now site to a divine experience of another kind.
April 7th, 2010 | by James Dalrymple | published in Features, Interviews
The March 28 English Talk Radio show features guest Kate Daligault of Banque Rhône-Alpes in Grenoble talking about banking in France, and Mary Zaccai interviews Kristine Minski and Vivian Draper about five years doing the show.