Au revoir! À bientôt! Adieu! My time as an au pair in Paris has come to an end. It’s been a difficult few months for many reasons but it has been an incredible experience overall and I cannot express how glad I am that I decided to do this. Although 4 months doesn’t sound like […]
Author: Annalise
Kick your knees up, step in time… to Montmartre
Honestly, you’ll never need a reason and you’ll never need a rhyme to step back a few hundred years to Montmartre. When I speak to friends who have lived in or visited Paris, the general consensus is that Montmartre is everyone’s favourite so here’s my take! Around the end of the 1800’s, this quaint little […]
Île de la Cité and Île Saint-Louis – The Oldest Part of Paris
As I mentioned in my previous blog (One Month In), instead of constantly flapping on about working as an au pair and studying French, I have decided to use my blog as a motivation to see and enjoy as much of Paris as possible in the short time that I have here, starting with the […]
Dear Diary…. One Month In
I am one month in to my new Parisian life and I am already loving it so much! As I mentioned in my previous post (La Première Semaine), I have settled in so quickly and everything seems to have magically fallen into place. To avoid constantly repeating myself, I’m not going to always blog about […]
The First Week! La Première Semaine!
Guess who’s back! Yep, I’ve packed my suitcase, bought a flight ticket and moved abroad again! After spending so much time sending off job applications to work in Spain, I gave in and went for my plan B of moving to France or China to learn a new language and experience a new culture. So […]
The Final Few Days on the Final Few Gili Islands
The end has come. After 4.5 months of travelling together, Ammun and I were ready for one last week of relaxing on Indonesia’s Gili Islands before heading back to rainy England. We arrived on Gili Air way later than planned so the sun was already going down but we jumped straight in the pool anyway […]
Exploring Balinese Mountains, Markets and Rice Paddies
Indonesia is an impressive country. Its 17,000 islands span across two continents and are home to several religions, the most dominating one being Islam. With 260 million people it is the 4th most populated country but you’ll find more than half on the island of Java which is the world’s most populated island. Some pretty […]
How Singapore Became My Favourite City
Once upon a time there was a Sumatran Prince who saw a lion on an island and named this island Lion City. This Lion City was then developed into a fishing village and Singapura (Sanskrit for Lion City) was born. The area has changed quite a bit since then and it turns out there’s no […]
KL’s Bright Lights and Towering Skyscrapers
My first impression of Kuala Lumpur (more affectionately known as KL) was somewhat distorted. After just over a week in Myanmar where the buildings are run down, wifi is sparse and toilets are questionable, we were relieved to touch down in a big, clean city. Our uber picked us up from the airport about 1.30am […]
Floating Between Villages on Inle Lake
As we drive past men standing majestically on the end of little wooden boats, their skirts flowing in the breeze and their leg wrapped around the oar as they paddle along, we could only be in one place in the world: Inle Lake. Despite being told that we would get in between 2 and 3am […]