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Carnival Craziness

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...

A Tourist in My Own City

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...

Ski You Later!

(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...

Around the World ... in 3 weeks?

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

Marching around the Christmas Markets

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...

The One with Italy, the Alps and the Fog

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...

Budapest aka Buda-Best

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....

S(love)akia

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...

Austria was a Wien-er

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...

Czech-ing out Prague

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...

Vamos a Madrid

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

Feelin' 22 in France

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...

Orienting Myself ...

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

it's going to be a NICE year

Salut à tous! If you’re reading this, I am no longer homeless in Nice. And can breathe a (huge) sigh of relief. But I’ll back up a little...

the (visa) struggle is real

Coucou tout le monde ! Hello everyone - In a classic scene from my life movie - I took a small journey to get my visa and (as always) hit...

Pre-departure Panic

Bonjour! We're t-minus 90 (!!!) days until my flight to Nice and believe me when I say its been quite the ride! So to update le...

Abroad blog!

Salut tlm! If you're looking for some blogs on my time abroad in Paris, France in 2017, feel free to click on the link to my old site for...

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