Valentinas Travels

Paris is one of my absolute favourite cities. It never gets boring. Every time I go back, I discover new things - and see things that I have to remember for my next visit. For me, there's something magical about the city. Sure, the city is touristy and doesn't always have much to do with the cliché of the romantic city of love. And yet: for me, it remains magical. I could sit for hours in a café in Montmartre, sipping a glass of rosé and people-watching. And I admit that a French chanson is constantly playing in my head when I do that (so much for clichés...). But enough raving now. I want to let the pictures do the talking. They were taken during my last visit in June. And here are a few of my latest tips for a visit to Paris.  My latest culinary discovery is the Patoche brewery in the Montmartre district. A microbrewery with delicious beer, including a pink sour beer. I loved it! The whole area around the brewery and the rue des trois frères offers numerous restaurants ...

Maybe it sounds a bit braggy, but I'll write it anyway: I dare say that my boyfriend and I are quite experts at traveling a country quite extensively in a short period of time. Enjoying ourselves and lying on the beach? Somehow we can't do that. We have to be always on the run, to make the best of our time.  So, after Covid once again disrupted our plans to visit the Balcans, we started planning our road trip through France. Originally, the south of France was on the agenda. Jet set life, Cote d'Azur. But if there weren't so many interesting things all around! Monaco & Andorra, those strange little countries you kind of have to visit when you're already there. Oh, and then there are the impressive Pyrenees! The Provence! The castles of the Dordogne! And Spain is not so far away anymore either! How to decide what to see and what to skip?! The program became fuller and fuller.  In the end it became 2 exciting weeks (and more than 2500 km) through the south and sou...