Travel Journal
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Chamonix-Mont Blanc: 4 summits at the Mont Rose ! (3/3)
Part 1 : Conquering Mont-Blanc from Chamonix Part 2 : Night at the Albert 1er hut and ascent of the Aiguille du Tour (3540 meters) Part 3: 4 summits at Monte Rosa! Monte Rosa is the second highest massif in the Alps after Mont Blanc. It has 10 peaks at more than 4000 meters above sea level Day 8 (Sunday, August 12, 2018): ascent to the Citta di Mantova hut (3,498 m) It’s a hard day to wake up today! If usually the house is active when I come back from the bakery, this morning everyone is still asleep, a sign that the organisms are starting to be marked So…
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Chamonix-Mont Blanc: Night at the Albert 1er hut and ascent of the aiguille du Tour (3540 meters) (2/3)
Part 1 : Conquering Mont-Blanc from Chamonix Part 2 : Night at the Albert 1er hut and ascent of the Aiguille du Tour (3540 meters) Part 3: 4 summits at Monte Rosa! After a few days of preparation all by ourselves, we leave this time with our guide, to climb the Aiguille du Tour which is reputed to be one of the easiest summits of the Mont-Blanc massif. It’s an excellent race for altitude acclimatization and technical preparation Day 6 (Friday, August 10): departure for the Albert 1er hut Today is the real start of our high mountain course. Our guide, Franck (his instagram page), comes to pick us up…
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Conquering Mont-Blanc from Chamonix (France): part 1/3
Part 1 : Conquering Mont-Blanc from Chamonix Part 2 : Night at the Albert 1er hut and ascent of the Aiguille du Tour (3540 meters) Part 3: 4 summits at Monte Rosa! Admiring the legends of mountaineering, I learned a few years ago that the summit of Europe, Mont-Blanc, was accessible for beginners with a good physical condition and a few days of preparation The conquest of Mont-Blanc has since become a fantasy for me So 4 years ago, in July 2014, we spent a week in Chamonix with my brother Vincent and a friend (another Vincent) to do a Mont-Blanc training course Unfortunately, the weather conditions (very bad weather)…
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Chicago (United States): 2 weeks in Americans
Today, I am going to talk to you about my incredible stay in America at the end of 2015. Well, it’s a little dated, but since I didn’t have a blog at the time, I didn’t tell it anywhere. My 2 weeks in Chicago were so incredible that I have to talk about it here (in case my memory fails me one day). It’s never too late, is it? Why Chicago? At that time, I was working for a media agency belonging to a large international group, with offices all over the world. Every year there is a contest called “Live my Life” and the winners are sent for 2…
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Our stay in Pays de la Loire (France): Part 3/3
Always accompanied by Rosalie <3 (the cat), we’re taking it easy in our airbnb at Trans sur Erdre, enjoying the garden and watching the series on Netflix. Rosalie likes to eat herbs a lot. I find the cat’s ability to recognize edible herbs (as well as their ability to identify a litter box) fascinating. It brings us a lot of purring and joy As for the garden, I take care of it superbly, and enjoy the tomatoes and raspberries in the garden. It pleases me to have a garden like this from time to time, but I don’t see myself taking care of it all year round, it’s a lot,…
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Our stay in Pays de la Loire (France): Part 2/3
The first part of our stay in the Pays de la Loire, it’s this way Today, we continue to criss-cross France, discovering the most beautiful landscapes of our beloved country Angers We finally arrive in Angers, where Jb’s uncle and his family live. It’s a city I’ve wanted to visit for a long time, but the opportunity has never presented itself until now We have lunch near the art museum. It is Saturday but this district is almost empty, we hardly find some shopkeepers open between noon and two. Even the restaurants are closed. It should be said that we are July 14, day of the French national holiday Then…
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Our stay in the Pays de la Loire (France): Part 1/3
Between South Korea and the wedding of JB’s brother in Tours in September, we spend a few months in Europe, more particularly in the Pays de la Loire, in a village 35 minutes drive from Nantes : Trans sur Erdre. And we have company: our cat, who will go on vacation with us Why Trans on Erdre? Everybody asks us this question 😀 We have friends in Nantes, and the only house with a garden, available in July and accepting cats, is in Trans sur Erdre. So we paid for a month’s rent via Airbnb and we came with our cat The cat’s vacation Well, it’s never easy to get…
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Five days in Paris (France)
Since Jb’s brother is getting married in September, we decide to spend 2 months in France, before going back on the road. And we take the opportunity, of course, to go back to Paris for a few days. While we used to spend 24 hours a day together, every time we come back to Paris, we hardly see each other anymore. Between professional appointments, friends to see, administrative and medical procedures… it is really a ministerial agenda that awaits us. Jet lag In this sense, the time difference isn’t very annoying. We get up a little earlier than other Parisians (5 am French time = 11 am Chinese time), but…
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2.5 days in Beijing / Beijing (China): Travel Diary + Travel Guide
After South Korea, we are supposed to spend the summer in Australia, but JB’s brother is getting married in September in France… so we decided to rework our itinerary and come back to Paris, then stay in Europe for a few months. Before returning to European soil, JB had the good idea to draw us a slightly exotic itinerary: Jeju => Beijing (2.5 days) => Astana (stopover) => Paris. Part 1: Travel Diary Part 2: Practical Tips Part 1: Travel Diary How to get there Jeju is an increasingly popular destination in Asia and there are many direct flights from major Asian cities to/from this small Korean island. The Jeju…
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Jeju Island (South Korea): 3rd Day of Visit
Today is the last day we have the car. But I have too much headache and stay in bed. I still have the presence of mind to ask JB several times if he cancelled our car reservation. And then, around noon, when I regain all my human capacities, I ask the question again and JB answers me that he didn’t manage to cancel the reservation This is a sign! I have to do everything I can to visit the places we couldn’t visit the last two days We booked the car at 9am, but when we arrived at 1:30pm, nobody yelled at us, on the contrary, our car is still…
