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Jardin de la Ville is a quiet garden by Quai Stéphane Jay and the river Isere, just next to the well-known Musée Stendahl, the St. André church, and not far from Palais de Justice. We used to go...
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Jardin Hoche is a gorgeous garden located near Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie and Place André Malreux, between Rue Hoche and Boulevard Gambetta, in central Grenoble. I first came to Jardin...
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Studio Kleber at 5 rue Kleber is a dance school in central Grenoble. I was there in 2004 to join the class in modern jazz. Everyone in the group were French teenagers, I was the only one who...
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If you are like me and enjoy different kinds of views, you will definitely love Grenoble at night. I walked across the bridges over the Isère river several times during the day, but nothing beats...
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Grand Place is a shopping mall in the area Echirolles outside the center of Grenoble. We went there a few times during our stay in Grenoble. When we found the Swedish store Hennes & Mauritz, or H&M...
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One of the best things with coming to a new city is all its different squares. Whatever city I’m in, I always seem to find my favourite. In Grenoble it was the big Place Victor Hugo between...
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Everyone I’ve dealt with at the hospital has been lovely, including the director who became impatient with all the impossible bits of paper I was supposed to produce and ended up dashing off a very terse letter saying she’s quite happy with my qualifications and the pen pushers should just...
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During these days of ridiculous frustrations we have occasionally considered tearing our party dresses and storming off home but believe it or not the good experiences are starting to outweigh the bad. We’ve met some lovely Australian and British English teachers through Jim’s multiple...
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At the end of the first phone call it became evident that the clerk had made a guess at what our bill might be and decided to charge us a flat rate of 40 euro every month regardless of our usage or lack thereof. Having decided that I really hadn’t misunderstood her, I rang back and explained...
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We moved in last week and have been completely overjoyed to have our own space again. The incredible hypermarket with 53 checkouts is only a bus ride away and we merrily stocked up on ridiculously cheap and poorly constructed items of infrastructure and loaded them into our squealing backpacks....
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After rapidly re-jigging the budget, our next aim was to find somewhere permanent to live. We left our seedy hotel pretty quickly in favour of the very modern if somewhat spartan youth hostel which allowed us to cook our own meals, however when it became overbooked and we were demoted from...
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Reality came crashing down upon us the next day when we checked out the lie of the land with the local real estate agents and the hospital administrators and discovered that the cost of living here is Melbournian while doctors’ pay is Argentinian, ie no one really expects a doctor to be able to...
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We heaved our 70 kilos of luggage into town 2 weeks ago having managed to charm and cajole every check-in attendant we met from Melbourne to London to let us put our worldly goods onto their aeroplane without paying the many dollars/pesos/pounds we should have in excess baggage.
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Overall, France has a terrific food culture and Grenoble definitely has its share of restaurants worth a visit. We ate out quite much while living there; I don’t remember the name of the restaurants though – only the location. My favourite place was Quai Mounier on the north side of the river...
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Grenoble has a couple of good parks and green areas. I especially liked Park P. Mistral which is the biggest park in the city. It is located beyond Boulevard Jean Pain and is surrounded by Avenue...
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