Frenchie Gone Exploring

Category: Travelling

  • TBT # Lisbon, Portugal

    When I am not travelling or planning a trip, I talk or write about traveling, what a surprise you will tell me! Wanderlust is part of me and I have come to accept and embrace it. This is why I have decided to write once a week about a city or a place that has caught…

  • What’s the common point between Tom Selleck, Burt Reynolds, Clark Gable and Albert Einstein?

    … They were all voted among the 35 manliest moustaches of all time by the website ‘The art of Manliness’.  It might be hard to believe but the moustache, or ‘mo’ if you want to be trendy, was once a statement of virility. It seems that pride has now been replaced by embarrassment* and growing…

  • My top 5 traveling fails…

    … Shit happens and not only to others (unfortunately). No matter how experienced you are, there are (will be) days when your mind is (will be) preoccupied unless you are a robot or a mutant. Then nothing will ever slip your mind and you can ignore my post as you wouldn’t understand how one can…

  • Once upon a time in Lyon…

    For an overdue catch up with one of my besties, we chose to meet up in Lyon. I might not be living there anymore but this city will always have a special place in my heart and it was time for her to explore it. About Lyon: It is located 2 hours from Paris, Geneva or Marseille by…

  • Open letter to my baby sister…

    Dear baby sister, You recently asked me how it is to backpack and if you would be able to do it too. How to answer those questions without putting you off… Backpacking. Is. Not. Easy. I love it and I do want you to love it too. What should I tell you? What would my traveller friends tell you?…

  • The end or a new beginning?

    Thanks to a Swiss friend of mine, I joined  in 2010 the Luzern fire brigade as a volunteer. Why not, I thought… It was perfect as I wanted to improve my Swiss German and at the same time to give something back to the country that adopted me in 2007. Well let me tell you this,…

  • 2015? You mean we’re in the future?

    #BackToTheFuture I am jumping on the bandwagon as I have decided to dedicate my today’s post to a cult movie and to welcome Marty Mc Fly to 2015! Welcome Marty, bienvenido, benvenuto, wilkommen, bienvenue! The movie came out when I was ONLY 7 years old (It does somehow make me feel better about my age when I stress on only,…

  • Straya, say whaaat?!

    ONLY 60 DAYS LEFT UNTIL WE FLY TO DOWN UNDER! I seriously cannot believe that Australia is around the corner! We have been waiting for so long… A bunch of us have started talking about us paying a visit to Paddy last year while catching up in New York. It became pretty clear that we…

  • Remedy against this sudden wave of cold…

    … A most needed TBT post! Memories from the exceptionally hot and sunny summer we had this year! Klosters, Switzerland Campo Blenio, Switzerland Gelmersee, Switzerland Luzern, Switzerland Zug, Switzerland Happy trails and remember: Carpe Diem!

  • La Bella vita 

    You gotta love a getaway weekend to Milano! #LoveMilano Even tho Milano is a big city, you don’t feel you have to rush around. You can decide to take it easy and stroll around the very busy streets around the Duomo or sit at a terrazza and enjoy people watching! On Saturday, we went to…