Travel – Expatriation – Lifestyle
If you’re anything like me you cannot choose when you have too many choices to choose from. That’s exactly what I felt when I was looking for the perfect travel guides before my world tour. Here’s what I thought about Lonely Planet® ones! For these reviews I’ve chosen 5 criteria (the MAPAR review :D), to […]
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You see, I have social anxiety, always had, and it’s pretty bad, enough to be a real pain in my life. It manifests itself even more during holidays, because my confidence always reaches a low point. So when I had to leave home for the World Tour I did this summer 2018 – which I […]
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Don’t be fooled by the title: Pornic is the name of a small seaside town in west France, not an onomatopoeia derived from a rude word: in fact, it is derived from ‘pornit‘ which means ‘pretty, flourishing harbour‘. Historically Pornic was part of Brittany, and the Duc de Bretagne even built a castle there in […]
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Around nine hours after leaving New York City on July 18th, we arrived in California and I set foot on the west coast of the United States for the first time in my life. 8 long hours on the plane helped me realize I wasn’t in New York anymore. The 7 magic days there were […]
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My story with New York City started some 20 years ago, which is about as far as my memory can get. The City Of My Dreams And Tears Growing up, every wall of our home was filled with pictures of New York, mostly beautiful, huge puzzles that my Mom had assembled and hung on our […]
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We had a total of 6 days in New York City: from July 12 to 18. In the first three days we spent a lot of time walking, at an average of 20 km per day, under a heat of 33 to 37°C! So for the last three days, we took it easy: FIFA World […]
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On the third day, we decided it was time to leave Manhattan for a while, and cross over the most famous (and most dreaded for pure New Yorkers) bridge of New York, the Brooklyn Bridge, which inevitably leads to Brooklyn. Later in the week, we learned a bit about NYC and its actual size compared […]
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Who said Fridays 13th bring bad luck? In fact, in most cultures and religions, they bring just the opposite, and in fact, this 13th of July 2018 brought great luck for me: I visited The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the most famous park of all time, Central Park. The Metropolitan Museum Of Art The […]
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I’ve officially set foot in New York City. And I still cannot believe it! I never thought this day would come so soon, but it has, and I honestly think it was one of the best days of my life: July 12th, 2018. This day has burnt its place in my memory as the day I actually fulfilled […]
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As this blog is intended to be all about travelling and expatriation, what better first article than one teasing you (briefly) where I went this summer?! As it happens, my father and I decided to take a one-month trip, all around the world, in places neither of us had been before! For my part, I […]
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