Nov 18, 2021 | Europe, France
If you’ve read my two last posts, you’ll know that I booked a flight to Luxembourg in part because I have two friends living in Metz, a pretty French city an hour south by train. I waited for the weekend so that my hostess and friend Sofia could show me...
Nov 10, 2021 | Europe, France
As I explained in the last post, I booked a flight to Luxembourg because I have two friends who work there. But the two live in Metz, about an hour by train south of this small country, and they studied and lived in Nancy, another hour by train south of the city where...
Jan 24, 2020 | Europe, France, Paris
For Jorge’s 30th birthday we wanted to do something special! He had already told me that he wanted to go to Disney so we thought it would be the perfect plan! I did an extensive research both to spend one or several days in the parks, including or not a Disney hotel,...
May 17, 2019 | Europe, France, Geneva, Switzerland
As you may recall, my first visit to Geneva in June last year was a pleasant surprise! When you know little of a destination and there are no great expectations, it is easier to be surprised. This second time I went with a forecast of rain and knowing that two weeks...
Dec 5, 2018 | Europe, France, Lyon
The challenge of going to Lyon came from my mother because in that week was the launch of the Beaujolais Nouveau (new wine from the Beaujolais region, a demarcated region that managed to make famous its new wine, wine usually less appreciated for not being that good)....
Nov 22, 2018 | Europe, France, Paris
A whole day in Paris, not that usual with TAP. Every day, seven planes land from Lisbon and three from Porto, so it’s not that usual to get a full day layover in Paris, being more common to stay only half a day (and as the hotel is out of Paris it is not that easy to...
Jul 16, 2018 | Europe, France, Paris
Almost every museum in Paris is free for citizens of the European Union until the age of 26 and in the month I’m turning 26 – this July – I had a nightstop in Paris. The time wasn’t much so I decided to go to the Louvre, the museum in Paris where I passed the least...
Sep 5, 2016 | Europe, France, Paris, Travel Itineraries
When I was five, my parents took me to Paris, to Disneyland. I have few memories of this visit and when I was 22, when I was doing Erasmus in Florence and because I had a friend in Paris, also in Erasmus, I decided it was time to go back and spend 7 days in the French...
Feb 18, 2014 | Europe, France, Paris, Travel Itineraries
Day 1 – arrival and Centre Georges Pompidou I came to Paris to visit a great friend who is here in Erasmus. I stayed in the Cité Internationale, where she lives, and where the university residences of each country can be found. I landed at Orly airport and took...
