The best hobbies and leisure activities Rhône-Alpes

Philippe Gallon qualified as an oenologist in Toulouse in 2002, then went on to specialize with a Master's degree in "Vine and Wine in the Environment" in Bordeaux. In spring 2012, he opened La Cave des Beaux-Arts in the heart of Clermont-Ferrand, an original wine cellar with tasting rooms where he introduces you to the wines of France during his oenology classes. Philippe Gallon has made an enlightened selection of local vintages and organizes "wine walks" to discover Auvergne's winegrowing heritage. Join him in the vineyards and learn to recognize grape varieties, soil types and the link to the terroir. In the winegrowing village, discover the imprint of winegrowers from the Middle Ages to the present day, inscribed in the stone of Montpeyroux, Boudes and Neschers... In the cellar, the winegrower awaits you for a tasting session of his volcanic wines. Book your next wine tour!

A meeting place for Warhammers enthusiasts and enthusiasts, this shop is a parallel world. Warhammer, at the base, are small figurines to decorate yourself, but over time, an entire imaginary world has developed into a strategic war game with a medieval fantasy atmosphere. The sellers are not short of arguments to tempt you with a game. They know their subject inside out. More than a shop, the Clermont workshop creates a link between enthusiasts who regularly meet to play and share their passion. You will also find the Eldars or Ring Lords of JRR Tolkien in the shop.

Nelson doesn't want to be called "Chief", just "Nelson". A cook and pastry chef, Nelson is there to pass on information, even to those who can barely boil water. Its workshops can accommodate a dozen people and will make you surpass yourself by having fun, and enjoy around a large table after the class. Consider booking a birthday, bachelorette party or any other event for yourself. By phone or on the site, remember to book early, because the different slots are quickly taken over!

Les petits crus offers a real experience around wines and cheeses. First, you choose the formula, either you test 4 or 6 pairings, then you choose your cheese board: mild, strong, creamy, or favorites. The wines arrive in small bottles, the cheeses on a slate. The tasting begins in a certain order. We are taken on a journey of flavors. No need to know anything about the products, everything is explained, we let ourselves be carried away, we discover, we appreciate and we even remember the names that have seduced our palate. An escape game around the wine is also organized for a new original oenological discovery.

Do you like puzzles and investigations? Geocaching at the Château de Parentignat is for you. Equipped with a GPS and a roadmap, you'll have to find various points of interest. Among other things, you'll pass through the château's gardens. The clues in the roadmap will lead you to the gardens. At the end, you'll normally arrive at the geocache! This activity is also available for groups all year round, by prior arrangement.

It's the first bookshop in Saillans. Opened in 2017, it has found its place. Books overflow onto the sidewalk of the main street. Engaging books, travel books, dream books, play books, children's books, classics, pearls and finds... The choice is eclectic, focused yet broad. And don't be fooled into thinking that the books are all jumbled together - they're all neatly arranged. This faux Alimentation Générale is more than just a bookshop. Go there, you'll understand...

Located at an altitude of 900 meters, the Observatoire de la Lèbe is a scientific and exploration space open to all. In addition to its telescope for observing the planets and stars, the site has a planetarium under a dome that offers daily broadcasting of an immersive documentary film followed by the intervention of a scientific mediator (session of 1 hour to 1h30 - different films depending on the day of the week). Night observations with a guide are also offered to learn how to spot the different constellations.

When dynamism and efficiency rhyme with astronomy, the result is the Village des Etoiles, an intelligent fusion of various activities related to astronomy. The activities in question cover a wide range of audiences, schools, companies and individuals through specific animations, organized trips, observation evenings, planetarium sessions, etc. Between the planetarium, the celestial theatre (open-air planetarium), the 600 mm telescope and the solar observatory, you will discover the sky from every angle. Registration required.

Observation evenings, themed workshops on space, the universe and the stars, and a festival are scheduled at the Hubert Reeves Observatory located... on Mars: you name it! The festival features lectures by professionals, discovery workshops and observations, drone-flying initiations, scientific-burlesque shows and interactive stands... All activities are subject to availability... So register in advance. Observation evenings and private tours available.

Every year, at the height of summer, a highly successful astronomy festival lights up Savoie. Activities revolve around the Salle de l'Europe, the conference venue, and the soccer stadium, which becomes the sky observation point. The festivities include a variety of workshops for all ages, stargazing sessions, micro-rocket-making workshops and introductory astronomy sessions. Each edition explores a unique theme to enrich participants' experience.

A place dedicated to chocolate by Christine Grosjean. At the same time a chocolate factory, a chocolate shop and a school with workshops. You will learn how to make the classics: pralines, ganaches, caramel, mendiants... Workshops are reserved for juniors to learn, for example, how to make chocolate lollipops. In the shop, delicious chocolates made from quality and responsible cocoa. Pastries in the same spirit of balance.

TM Philatelie.com sells and buys on the web stamps of all countries. The postage stamps of France, Andorra, Monaco, DOM-TOM, ex French colonies are sold at 25% of the YT price and cancelled at 15%.

Enter Jean-Noël Sonzogni's playful universe that leads you into a whirlwind of trains and railway lines. Trains, rails, characters, locomotives, cars… everything to create a circuit in his house or garden. Used equipment, models, accessories, ready-to-ride boxes, spare parts and maintenance, lighting, electric controls… short, everything you dream about to find your child's soul.

The rifles, quésaco? This is a form of lottery, which is used only once. The game was invented by the Bourbon Tourist Office, and was a great success. It brings together the 1 st and 3rd Monday of the month, in the multipurpose "Robert Chaput Space", many amateurs of convivial entertainment. All the more so as beyond the pleasure of playing, many lots are at the key (televisions, DVD players, to kitchen equipment…).

The Rétromobile Club Forézien is a car club based in Feurs. It offers outings and events for classic car enthusiasts. Club members also get together for outings to picturesque locations such as Bugey, Cerdon and the Retord plateau. The club is open to all classic car enthusiasts, whatever their age.

Young graduate photographers, Chloé and Maureen have embarked on the Mademoiselle Hirondelle adventure. Specializing in weddings, ready to work for any occasion, full of ideas and projects, the two girls use black and white a lot, but not only! On the website you'll find plenty of examples of what they can achieve. Working on the spontaneity of their models and seeking above all to bring out the naturalness in the people they photograph, they'll take your picture alone or with your family. Funny, energetic girls who deserve to be known!

For over 30 years, the Genealogical Circle has been connecting generations with passion. Its website offers useful information to genealogy enthusiasts and curious people. With time and research, the association has become an expert on the region's past, history and daily life. If you join the association, you can access its rich database, at the forum, and its journal to me Auvergne! , quarterly newsletter published since 1978, highlighting the many questions raised during the research and presenting several headings: Methods and sources, Bibliography, Life and crafts of old, Figures and families, Heraldry, Paleography…

In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Eingana is a creative goddess and mother of animals and humans. It's in a spirit of reconnection with nature that Aurélie Peyronnel has created these gentle survival courses. For half a day, one or two days, in small groups (maximum eight people), you'll walk along the banks of the river in search of edible plants, to be used in herbal teas or soups, or for therapeutic purposes.

Les Voyageurs des Cimes,is a group of people who are passionate about the planet, its peaks and its people. They are nature instructors, tree-climbing instructors, mountain guides, speleologists, rope technicians, and do-it-yourselfers... This joyful collective programs workshops for children and sometimes even invites parents. For yoga in the trees, nights in the forest, creation of wild basketry in the woods, workshops to make soaps, balms, papers and inks from plants. From the treetops to the bottom of the cauldron, beautiful experiences.

Your papilles, your tabliers, your pots! Here are some interesting proposals. Montélimar's gourmet restaurant offers formulas for the birthday of your small children (from 4 to 10 children with the help of a mom) to organize a home snack with cake and activity for children. We bring you the previously chosen cake, the children take part in a cooking workshop and during cooking, the chef turns into a facilitator to orchestrate games (especially around flavours and food balance, as long as you do!). The little guys left with the dish they cooked. Cooking courses (without the birthday, so no candles!) are also offered to groups of children. Courses are also available to adolescents and of course adults. For small gourmands, the groups are reduced to a maximum of 5 participants. History to keep control of places, ingredients and chocolate melted!

The association brings together people of all ages and backgrounds around the game and the privileged moment it creates. The Maison des Jeux hosts workshops in schools, neighborhood houses and retirement homes. It allows you to discover ancestral games from around the world. Every Wednesday for years, games are held on the association's premises. Membership entitles you to discounts in certain shops, and free for activities. In addition to the numerous animations throughout the year, on the occasion of the Festival des Contre-Dives in summer and everywhere in Auvergne, La Maison des Jeux puts on the rental of games and can animate your evenings.

This scholarly research of its own ancestors is now an activity in constant progress, and this is why new amateurs have every interest in contacting these specialists at the Annecy-Geneva antenna in order to exchange useful information and training.

Arnaud and Jessica open the doors of their educational mini-farm to let you discover their world, the mountain lifestyle and the specificities of each animal. Chickens, geese, pigs, rabbits, goats, sheep and donkeys! With the latter, they even offer to go on a hike for an hour or even several days, if you feel like a little more adventure and bivouac. Recently, there is even an artisanal donkey milk soap factory here. A whole program!

Le Temple du Hobby is a store specialized in miniature games such as Warhammer, Kings of War, Bushido... Located just a few steps from the Place Gaillard, it is full of treasures for miniature enthusiasts: miniature games and everything needed to paint them and decorate them with accessories, board games, card games... All at very reasonable prices. The welcome is smiling and you can feel that you are dealing with real enthusiasts. Tournaments are regularly organized and allow amateurs to meet around a game table. It is possible to order online.

The Maison des Beaujolais, the first co-operative sales and promotion cooperative in Beaujolais, was inaugurated in 1952. It is one of the six wine and wine-making areas of Beaujolais. This pioneer site offers a bar and a tasting cellar, in which you will be offered wines from the twelve AOC appellations selected according to the anonymous methods applied by all vaults. You can buy them locally in the shop. A large restaurant, a beautiful terrace and a large veranda cater for groups and individuals. Everything is prepared on-site, with fresh products, by a team including Chef Remy Dufour, who has worked in prestigious restaurants. The possibility of choosing wines served by glass allows a good combination of dishes and wines. Mince are served at any time. The Maison des Beaujolais also organizes different events: Beaujolaises days, presentation of the Beaujolais vineyard and can also make «tailor-made» for your family or professional occasions.

This multi-activity do-it-yourself and recycling center is run by the La Chignole association to facilitate do-it-yourself activities, foster social ties, exchange know-how and reduce waste through reuse. On site, you'll find three distinct spaces: the Matériauthèque, a recycling center where salvaged materials are sold, the Outilthèque, which pools DIY and gardening tools for low-cost loans, and the Atelier partagé, a self-service DIY space for workshops and training courses.

A lover of Japanese cuisine? Cordon bleu looking to expand your knowledge? Sooji's classes are for you! On Saturday afternoons, the area to the right of the store is transformed into a culinary workshop. All the ingredients are ready on the tables. The group of 6 to 12 follows the explanations attentively, reproduces the gestures and prepares a dish. There's a choice of courses for preparing gyoza, japchae, bulgogi, kimpap, onigiri and kimchi. Once the class is over, you leave happy with the time you've spent, and with the dish you've just prepared. The class ends a little later, at home, with a tasting of your work.

Have you forgotten which plants are safe to eat and which ones are good for you? Rediscover your foraging soul and get out into nature with the École des Saveurs des Bois. Discover how to feed yourself healthily with what our environment has to offer on a walk in the Massif des Bauges, and fill your bag with edible and medicinal plants. The wilderness cooking course lets you prepare an entire menu using the day's harvest!

Denis Labouré is a leading figure in astrology in Saint-Étienne. He devotes himself to research and teaching, giving online courses and leading seminars. He is also co-director of Éditions Spiritualité Occidentale, for which he publishes his astrological works and translates ancient texts for professionals. Denis Labouré enables as many people as possible to discover astrology, while learning more about this ancient science. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced astrologer, his teaching will give you a better understanding of the heavens and their influences.

A healer's granddaughter, Barbara has been working as a clairvoyant and numerologist for 40 years. She doesn't do any occult work, and there's no point in coming to see her if it's for such things! From numerology to card drawing, this professional has a knack for seeing into the future. She will welcome you warmly to her clairvoyance practice (by appointment only) and help you to find out a little more about your past, present or future... Her aim is to provide her clients with all the knowledge they need to regain their self-confidence, strength and courage, because each and every one of us has the power to change the course of our lives.

Founded in 1991 by Roland Duchastelle and Joseph Lamaze, among others, the association strives to "encourage its members to discover the arts" and to "contribute to the enrichment and influence of Clermont-Ferrand museums". To this end, it has set up several workshops, particularly painting and calligraphy workshops for children and adults, organizes cultural outings, and supports museums by promoting exhibitions, helping to finance materials, and even acquiring works in order to make them available to them.

Located near Crêt-de-Roc, Origam'île is a pretty boutique selling Japanese gifts imported from the Land of the Rising Sun. Creative workshops for adults and children aged 7 and over are often organized here. Lasting from 1 to 3 hours, you'll learn the art of origami and the secrets of making lots of other treasures: garlands, jewelry, greeting cards, little boxes... The store also sells washi paper, origami jewelry, stationery and a few grocery products, such as the famous Sakuma Drops jelly candy.

Located in Saint-Ismier, close to the north-east of Grenoble, this club meets every Friday evening and welcomes the passage observers according to weather conditions. The club's observations are not necessarily made in Saint-Ismier even but more readily on the heights, along the Chartreuse Regional Natural Park, to benefit from a much less polluted sky by city lights. Public comments are also offered during national astronomical events such as Stars Nights. Early July each year, don't miss the "Cinstars" evening in the park park… In addition to the attractions offered for children, a film is planned in open air followed by a sky observation evening. Very friendly atmosphere, especially for families.

Auvergne Traineau is a dog sledding service based in La Bourboule, Auvergne. Run by Julien, a qualified professional musher, and his pack of around 30 dogs, Auvergne Traineau can turn your vacation into an unforgettable experience. Whether by sled, cani-kart or cani-marche, you can discover the wonderful tracks of the Charlannes plateau all year round. Services are available for cani-karters aged 3 and over, and for cani-walkers aged 6 and over, and are also suitable for people with reduced mobility. Auvergne Traineau accepts payment in cash, cheques, bank transfers and vacation vouchers.

They offer cooking classes, as well as online services for those who prefer to learn from home. Whether you want to learn new recipes, improve your cooking skills or just have a good time with friends, Chefsquare is the place for you.

The venue hosts events such as trade fairs, exhibitions, shows and festivals.

Ozala is a creative paradise! You can learn or improve your skills in sewing, drawing and painting, Cricut, handicrafts, etc., either on your own or in a workshop. Materials and mediums are provided: from brushes to electromagnetic saws... But you won't be left to your own devices: advice is provided on site. If you need more guidance, then sign up for our workshops: mosaic, creative drawing, macramé, watercolor... Junior workshops are also offered during vacation periods. A great way to unleash your creativity!

Petits et grands gourmands is a cooking class located in Montchal.