I woke up that morning quite early. I had a meeting with some clients at the other end of the city, with my boss, and was already running late. A habit of mine It dawned on me that in the upcoming days I was getting kicked out of the student accommodations I had called home…
Category: Travel
Everything about me moving around. From the East Coast to the West Coast or from Ireland to Germany.
Das Studentenleben
The student life. Never was I considered like someone who parties a lot. Neither was I ever considered like someone who would like to forgo a bit of comfort in favor of sleeping in the public showers of a Canadian national park, or live in a 12m² flat. Then, I delved right into the possibilities…
Crazy week (CS 2/2)
A crazy week right before the holidays Part one of my CS adventures here Right before I went to the west part of Germany, then Luxembourg, Strasbourg (France), Trier (Oldest city in Germany) and finally Berlin for my birthday and new year’s eve, I had this crazy week. . . If you have a Couchsurfing…
Sylvester Travels
Happy New year.
Looking back on the last moments of 2014 and early moments of 2015.
Christmas in Saarland, Germany
A small photo update of what a small village in the west of Germany looks like. I left Munich on the 23rd, in the afternoon and crossed to the western end of Germany in four hours Autobahn I was invited to spend quality christmas time with my friend Denise’s family. She was my roomate on…
Couchsurfing (CS 1/2)
Have you ever heard of couchsurfing ? Really ? Well couchsurfing is something you should know about if you happen to be on my blog. It’s this little amazing thing that let’s you meet people from all walks of life, all around the world in a generosity based community. The idea is to share. Share…
The Austrian Slopes (Alps 2/2)
Part 1 The closer we were approaching the mountains the sharper the air got. We finally arrived at the Glacier. The Pitzaler. It took quite long as we left from Obersdorf in Germany and the 3 kilometers high glacier was further away in Austria. We had a change of plans twice due to the lack…
Die Klausentreiben Nacht (Alps 1/2)
It’s Friday early morning. The smokey windows of my room indicate me that it’s cold outside. Even by my standards. Perfect for a trip to the alps. Good, one was planned for the past month and a half. Crawl out of bed, pack my bag and on my way I was to meet friends from…
Tollwood Winterfestival, Germany
It is indeed a small world. Sometimes its tininess can really surprise us, sometimes it’s just like fate has a mysterious way of working things out. I was traveling across Canada in a minivan for a little short than a week. With me, our driver Markus. A German expat currently exploring the world and making…
25 Jahre Berlin Mauerfall, Germany
25th anniversary of the fall of the wall. Glühwein, mock races, unification of Germany and Couchsurfing. Normal weekend.
Tequila laundry
Most of my blog updates are impersonal and only bring up where or what I actually did in terms of landmarks etc. We are far away from what I started as short weird stories that happened to me in Montreal. Far from the short snippets I would post on the road across Canada, bumming on…
Deutsches Museum, Germany
We met early morning (who am I kidding !?, it was a 11 !, I’m just so lazy); Another day out with the I-Club. International students and Bavarian students organizing activities for auslanders. Just approaching the structure, crossing the street/bridge following the indications to the museum I could not really comprehend that this whole Island…
Bayerish Halloween
Halloween in Bavaria. Pretty much like regular Halloween, with fewer people participating and bigger parties it seems. Many just don’t make plans and go with the flow. I was invited to 3 parties. A student one home, in Studentenstadt, one in another student housing spot in Olympiazentrum and one in a big big big (did…
Lake Alpsee, Germany
Walking in the prismatic amazement that is the woods and mountains in fall. Feeling the chilly wind on your cheeks while the sun is still warm. The sound of leaves crackling under your soles. Fall is a great moment of the year to visit some places that are too crowded during the summer and to…
Regensburg, Germany
The first official week of class in a foreign country, as an international student living in student housing is always the first week where you really experience the rule “Obligations, Social life, Sleep: pick two”. A whole week of basically going out every other day. Friends here, bar there, international meet-and-greet there, etc. I set…
Bavarian September ends
Greenday’s “Wake me up when September ends” suddenly makes a lot of sense. With October already well on it’s way, it marks the end of the biggest folk fair in the world. Oktoberfest is over. It is year after year held in Münich, Bavaria, Germany. An international fatherland symbol. Held every year in the Theresienwiese,…
Flashback : Across Ireland
A short mash up of some pictures and shaky images taken during my trip through Ireland with my friends Guillaume & Mary. The video spans from our first moments in Dublin to our final goal; Giant’s Causeway.
Journey to München (2/2)
Setting up a new life A long bus ride later, I find myself looking through the big tinted windows to a gorgeously old German city. Thinking about the fact that I will be here for some time, a good year or a bad year. I had to make the most out of it I told…
Journey to München (1/2)
The road to Munich. It all started in Montréal, Québec, Canada. In a small neighborhood called Verdun. Just between Wellington Street and Lasalle Boulevard. A small apartment on the second floor. A young man decided to change a few things about his life. He had this realization after understanding he still was not so sure…
Topography of terror & Berlin Third wave coffee
What better way to kill the day’s spirit than visiting an exposition about how Germany tried to eradicate Warsaw from the face of the earth. An exposition set up in the ruins of an old Gestapo headquarters about the city we now call the Phoenix of Poland. 85% of its structures utterly destroyed or wiped…
Vanished Elsewhere 