Grenoble mostly by night

I barely had time to recover from my rather taxing birthday weekend (must be getting old or something?), before it was time to hit the road again, for Grenoble, for work. Getting up early Monday morning, I joined my colleages Jean-Marc, Bruno and David for the journey to the far-away Isere department... After a 5-hour drive, we arrived, surprised to arrive in a sunny Grenoble (I'd been told time after time that Grenoble is always foggy and/or rainy). We actually got quite nice views over the surrounding Alps from our office building, located in a rather grim industrial suburb.

This being a business trip, and us being very serious indeed when it comes to work, I didn't actually see any of Greonoble by day-light, hence the title of this blog entry. However, on our second night in Grenoble, I was treated to a bit of a "Grenoble by night" tour. Things kicked off with a bit of an apero at a nice little bar by Place Victor Hugo with a bunch of colleagues. We then headed off for a rather nice meal at classy La Girole. Pretty sophisticated food for a decent price (one would for sure pay more at the Cote d'Azur...). And to finish things off, Olivier, Adrien and Giovanni took me & Vikas (a colleague from Santa Clara whose spent quite a bit of time in our Sophia office too) out to O'Callaghan's, a nice little Irish pub by the riverside.

All in all, a rather nice trip and a nice introduction to Grenoble (mostly by night).