A walk around Metz, France

A walk around Metz, 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...
What to see in Nancy

What to see in Nancy

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...
Birthday at Disneyland Paris

Birthday at Disneyland 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,...
Vieux Lyon – middle ages passages (traboules)

Vieux Lyon – middle ages passages (traboules)

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)....
A whole day in Paris, not that usual with TAP

A whole day in Paris, not that usual with TAP

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...
Louvre, Paris – free museums until 26

Louvre, Paris – free museums until 26

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...
7 days in and around Paris

7 days in and around Paris

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...