Teleportation may not have been invented yet, but the fact that we can physically move from place to place around the world with relative ease has to be considered a pretty phenomenal feat in and of itself, don’t you think? While we are fans of slow travel and really getting to immerse ourselves in a […]
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An Insider’s Look into a Paris Flea Market: The World’s Largest
Exit Porte de Clignancourt metro station and start heading towards Paris’ famed ‘Les Puces de Saint-Ouen’ flea market, and you might start getting that disappointing feeling of a wasted trip. Did I just wake up early and travel all the way to the ‘burbs for this? Actually you’re technically outside of Paris now, but let’s […]
[VLOG] Celebrating July 14th in Paris
There’s always a risk when you hold such high expectations of a place. That you’ve built it up so much in your head, no reality can possibly live up to it. Yet I went to Paris with an assuredness like no other. I’d fantasized about Paris for so long, there was almost no way I […]
Celebrating July 14th in Paris & What it Means to Me
I like to think there’s a reason for me being born on July 14th and my unfathomable obsession with Paris and politics. The annual 14th of July celebrations in France (officially La Fête Nationale or The National Celebration) marks the day of Storming of the Bastille in 1789 in which common folk revolted against the reigning […]