This week-end I went to Berlin with some friends of Cologne to visit my dear friend Enhui, who is now studying there. I was waiting so much to go there but mostly to meet her and in the end, the week-end was even better than what I expected because this city is just great!!! Berlin is well-known internationnaly for a lot of aspects: historically, for party (electro mostly), for alternative districts, for street arts,... and I have to say that I was surprised to see how all this is so true! Berlin is a huge city so we could not go everywhere but we walked a lot around. I loved walking, wandering there because every corner is different and there are a lot of street arts everywhere. Firstly, I really liked Kreuzberg district: there were a ... read more

In the evening of the 2nd day, I went to the city center but as Anastasiia still had something to do at work, I first met her 2 friends Zhenya and Sacha to walk in the city for a while around the Stadium, which is kind of a business district with higher and modern buildings. This stadium has been completely rebuilt for the Football Euro Cup last year. On that walk, I saw a Catholic Church -the other churches and cathedrals I saw were orthodox ones-. This walk was nice because we were just talking about our life, our plans,... After walking with Zhenya, I went to dinner with Sacha, as Anastasiia was still working. We went to the same restaurant, where we were yesterday after opera -there are a lot of them in the center-. ... read more

This week, I was staying at my parents' place near Paris for a week holiday and two of my good friends in Cologne (from China and Philippines), joined me for a 2 day-trip there. So for my parents having my 2 friends from China and from Philippines at home was almost like to do couchsurfing. I was really looking forward to seeing how my parents would be with my friends, who cannot speak the same language and do not share the same culture. And I have to say that I was really amazed and happy to see how my parents behaved with the both of them. Both of them spoke English or a bit of German with them, ask them questions, smiled, laughed,... I could not have dreamt of a better stay with them. On the ... read more

For our 2nd day in Lisbon, we went to Sintra early morning. We talked about our plan to go there to our host and he kindly offered us to take us there in the morning, as he was only working in late afternoon on that day. This was great because he knew where to go and it was much quicker than bus!! For breakfast, we went to a pastry shop, which is famous in Sintra. We ate there a pastry called "travesseiros", which is made of sugar cane cream wrapped in pastry. I have to say that the 1st bite I thought ok that's really tasty but after some bites, it was really too "heavy" for me with all this sugar and butter. But, well, it was nice to taste it once. After breakfast, we walked ... read more

So after that great 1st day in Faro, our holiday went on and the main theme of those 3 days was Chillaxing :D So it means mainly days discovering a new island or beach, enjoying the sun and the ocean and obviously drinking sangria at the same time :) My friend from Ukraine was crazy about Sangria so we tasted the Sangria at each beach and each bar we went to! Red sangria or white sangria we drank them all ;) So but except drinking, we really discovered nice places around Faro. The 1st day we went with the boat to Ilha Deserta. It's an island where a very few people are leaving nowadays and where there is only one restaurant! For this, the restaurant is really nice but expensive. When there is no competition why ... read more