Our Normandy road trip turned out to be really beautiful and instructive. We managed to stop at several locations on our drive from Bayeux to Honfleur. Normands are not wrong when they joke about their rainy weather, the whole time we were moving around with an umbrella and a raincoat in our travel backpacks as […]

I was so excited to go and see this film. I really liked “Paris Je t’aime” (2005) and “New York, I love you” (2008) and this movie looked like it was kind of the same idea but in my home town. Finally, last night I watched it at Le Noveau Latina theatre in Paris. First […]

The Mont Saint-Michel is one of the most visited spots in Normandy. The gorgeous nature plus the stunning architecture of the place creates a perfect medieval environment in your head. I could imagine the solitude felt at this monastery many centuries ago when the weather was terrible and the access depended on the tides being […]

We are on the road again! For three days, we will be traveling in Normandy with a friend. Yesterday afternoon, three of us took a train from Paris’ Saint Lazare station to the city of Rouen, with the idea of spending the night there and pick up a rental in the morning to drive around. […]

  A través de un calado jirón de nube, rosa por el último rayo de sol agonizante, luce Venus su fuego de pulido brillante y la luna su aspecto de palidez medrosa. El crepúsculo acaba. La tarde silenciosa, avanza lentamente, y el manto acariciante de sus velos, extiende sobre el rizo constante de la sondas, […]

The more I listen to Roberto Fonseca’s CD “Yo” the more I like it.  With this work, he touches the Afro Cuban music grounds in a way that no matter where I am on the planet, the sound of the music puts me back in Havana in a second. Fonseca and his band are touring […]

A big reason to love France and to begin working out as soon as possible: FOOD! I particularly like crepes and since I got to Paris I have bought them both at street stands and creperies. Tonight we went to Creperie Josselin, a great endroit for crepes and cider. They do not seem to have […]

Yesterday we had our first picnic by the riviere, the first one out of many this summer, I am sure. A friend proposed to meet on the south bank, between the Pont de Sully and Pont d’Austerlitz as there is a nice space with grass around that area. We got there around 7:30pm with a […]

One of my friends from Havana gave me the CD: “Fénix de Cristal” as a present and I have been listening it a lot in the last few days… Here is the video for one of the songs:

We had a nice bike ride around the city yesterday using the popular Velibs system. Paris is full of velo stations, some of them having as much as 30 bikes, but now with the great summer weather is hard to find an available bike during the day. I got an app called Univelo Paris that […]

Air Transat notified us in Toronto that the plane was not going to leave at the scheduled time. After a five hour delayed flight we arrived safely in Paris. I managed to sleep a bit thanks to an empty seat beside me. I was so happy to be able to return to Paris after almost […]