December 4th, 2009 | by James Dalrymple | published in Features, Info & Advice, Interviews, Work & Study
Kate Daligault is a financial advisor at Banque Rhône-Alpes in Grenoble. She talks to Grenoble Life about the banking culture in France, getting financial advice in English, and what new residents need in order to open an account.
November 9th, 2009 | by Shonah Wraith | published in Comment, Features, Life & Culture
New resident Shonah Kennedy – aka Miss Shonah – gets around Grenoble ‘en vélo’. She encourages you to do the same. Here is her guide to enjoying and surviving your daily bicycle commute in the Capital of the Alps.
October 29th, 2009 | by Hannah Dee | published in Comment, Features
The French are not known for their love of spices – difficult for Grenoble’s British expats such as Hannah Dee, who comes from multicultural Leeds. Here is her guide to Grenoble Spice: the specialist food stores that hold those treasured, hard to find exotic ingredients.
October 12th, 2009 | by Shonah Wraith | published in Features, Info & Advice, Interviews
Shonah Kennedy shares her experience about relocating to Grenoble, and interviews Isabelle and Julie of LC Mobility, the agency that helped her find accommodation and deal with the trickier aspects of setting up life in a French city.
September 8th, 2009 | by Kelly Rigotti | published in Comment, Features, Life & Culture
Kelly Rigotti writes Almost Frugal, a blog about being smart with your spending, saving and money goals. As probably the only American living in France writing about frugal living, we invited her to share her personal finance tips for her adopted home town of Grenoble. Part I in the series is about food.
August 23rd, 2009 | by Christina Rebuffet-Broadus | published in Features, Interviews
Bob and Sylvie Tharinger own and operate Pumpkins (33 rue d’Alembert), Grenoble’s only authentically American restaurant. Christina Rebuffet-Broadus of Grenoble Life talks with them about showing the French that American cooking is much more than McDo has led them to believe.
July 29th, 2009 | by James Dalrymple | published in Comment, Features
Londoner James Dalrymple marvels at Grenoble’s clockwork bus system, meaningful timetables, and bus drivers who like to be thanked for their efforts.
July 13th, 2009 | by James Dalrymple | published in Features, Life & Culture
James Dalrymple goes against the Scottish part of his nature by splashing out on a fantastic meal at the Michelin guide-recommended Restaurant Le Provence. He is not disappointed.
June 10th, 2009 | by James Dalrymple | published in Comment, Features
Whenever James Dalrymple, a resident of Grenoble, speaks French to people, they reply in English. He reflects upon the reasons why.
May 14th, 2009 | by James Dalrymple | published in Comment, Features, Info & Advice
James Dalrymple explains how he went about getting a carte d’identité for his five week old daughter, and how he learnt to let sleeping babies lie