About Friendships
I started this article about a year ago, but ended up focusing on just one topic: being alone. Recently, as I was thinking of writing about...
28 June 2024
Eating A Cheese Fondue In Gruyères
Gruyère is a typical Swiss cheese, but did you know that its name comes from a geographical area? Last April, I spent three days in Switzerland,...
14 June 2024
Montreux Flower-Lined Promenade
When I was preparing my first trip to Geneva, I looked for a boat trip on Lake Geneva. Naive, I thought that I could find one...
31 May 2024
In The Old Center Of Geneva
After spending almost a full day around the lake, I decided to focus on the old center of Geneva on my second day. As I was...
17 May 2024
Lake Geneva, Its Water Fountain And Monster
Back when I was a translator, I used to translate tourism pages about Switzerland from Italian into French. It all seemed so fantastic: the lakes, the...
3 May 2024
Annecy, A Beautiful City And Lake In The Alps
About 2 hours by car from Lyon, you can visit Annecy. I knew the name of the city, but because I’m not a local, I had...
19 April 2024
Entering Basilica San Marco in Venice
Everybody knows about Piazza San Marco, in Venice. That’s the main square, the one you see on TV. That’s where the Doge of Venice, the great...
5 April 2024
Coline And The Chocolate Factory
Last February, I booked a visit of a chocolate factory called Chocolat des Princes, near Saint-Étienne, in France. I moderated my expectations and thought it might...
22 March 2024
One Day In Bruges, Belgium
In 2019, I visited Belgium with two friends I had met in London: Beatrice and Leila. We met in Brussels, where Beatrice was working. After two...
8 March 2024