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We arrived in Porto late Saturday night and headed straight to our hostel. Luckily, it was right off the metro line since it had started...

Getting up at 5 am is only exciting when I know I’m heading to Paris!! Or on holiday (again)! We started with a little bump in the road...

Villefranche sur Mer The weather has been so gorgeous, we all wanted to go to a sandy beach! Nice is nice, but we needed a change from...

My little sister Claire and I were doing spring break in Greece together! Catch up and read Part 1 here. We left Athens after grabbing...

Imaginez que you work 12 hours a week, 2-3 days a week, with minimal outside work except for creating the occasional PowerPoint on...

Mamma Mia vibes only for these past 2 weeks! I headed off to school with a huge, orange backpack (borrowed from Katie - thanks bud!) with...

I always knew Carnival (or Carnaval in French) was a huge thing in Rio and Venice, but it turns out that Nice has the 3rd largest...

I was super lucky to have two friends come visit me in February and the beginning of March! It was so great to see them and also let me...

(or ... all the times we failed while going skiing) Coucou from les Alpes! Mel and I spontaneously decided to join some friends on a ski...

Youpi ! The only thing worth waking up for at 5 am for is a weekend trip to Paris – and what better way to commencer our February break?...

Coucou ! or should I say Ciao or Gutentag .... aka its a very special edition of Pardon My Franglais (drumroll please!) The fam came to...

It's the most punderful time of the year ... and this year I'm in Europe to experience the markets! Around the beginning of December, we...

Coucou à tous et à toutes ! It’s your favorite mountain goat here back from vacation — my housemates’ friends came to visit these past 2...

We got to Budapest in about 3 hours from Bratislava and checked into our super nice AirBnb! We stayed in Buda, pretty close to the river....

Taking buses through Eastern Europe is definitely the way to go - especially when the only cost 5 euros and come with a free coffee and...

The next morning, the Prague pals split and I headed to Vienna. Or at least tried to. I left the AirBnb with a little under hour to take...

Tuesday morning, I left Madrid (with one last bocadillo sandwich) and spent most of the day at the airport or in the air or on the Prague...

Bonnes vacances ! Happy break! After a solid three weeks of teaching (one of which was just introducing myself) we totally deserved a...

What better way to start the next year of your life in a foreign country! Birthday week kicked off with a 5:45 am wakeup call to prendre...

... aka Monday was our first "official" day of orientation! Les filles de Châteauneuf woke up nice and early and managed to get halfway...