About K Travel Notes

 Hi there!

Welcome to my blog called K Travel Notes.

This is a space that I wanted to create for very long time but I did not have the time to do. I have collected most of my travel notes about several places I have visited and decided to digitalize them. It is a sort of experience container, for me to access it from everywhere. On the top of that I have decided to share it with whoever may be interested. I will try to make it as useful as possible as well.

It will not be in chronological order, as I am currently writing my notes about my adventure in French Guyana. I have arrived here at the beginning of the month and have a few pages written already so I will start with them. It will be a sort of "live blogging". 

I could do this with video blogging but I am not really comfortable in front of the camera but it could be a next step. I may turn this into a podcast as well some time down the road, if it is interesting enough.

A huge disclaimer: despite being relatively fluent in English, it is not my mother tongue. I also speak French, Italian, some Spanish, and basic Dutch. 

Last but not least: Thank you for your attention, for taking your precious time to read these lines and the blog. I really appreciate it! 🙇

One final thing: comments may be allowed, but only if respectful. Any aggressive behavior will bare its consequences and will not be tolerated, as in the real world. Thank you for your understanding.

Enjoy it! 😁

Location: Cayenne 97300, Guyana francese

Popular posts from this blog

It's NOT a flood!

Image
  I am writing with a couple of days delay. The last few hours were a little hectic . As you can imagine, no, I haven't been visited by Poseidon. 🐠 The following morning (18.04) the waters were relatively alright. The stream went back to its, and was relatively low. I thought the worst had passed, and it seemed like it. I could catch my breath. Stream even more overflown At 9:30 AM, on the other hand, it started rain cats and dogs. A lot of rain, in a very short period of time and all of a sudden. It lasted no less than two hours. Within one hour from the start the stream went back to being dangerous and it was even closer to the house than the day before. Back to paranoia! 😔 On the top of that, I miraculously spotted that our porch started to have water in it: the drain in front of it was filled with leaves and sand, for a while, and the cover was glued to the ground with concrete. The water started to increase but, luckily, it was not high enough to pass the windows and enter ...
Read more

Turtle miss

  We have read about turtles laying eggs in French Guyana on the internet and were excited to see this. Talking with some flat mates we decided to join them. We left at sunset, off to Montjoly beach. They showed us some pictures and videos from previous night and it was great! Traveling through the residential outskirts of Cayenne at that time was quite an experience: the areas were rather calm , not sleeping quite yet, and few people going for a jog. I did not really expect. As soon as we arrived at the beach we got our torches out. It was very dark and windy. We could hear the ocean and its waves breaking into the sand. Yet, we could not really see it at first . Once our eyes got used to the darkness, I managed to distinguish the sky, the clouds, the sand, the ocean and the lather. I took off my shoes, in a sort of freedom gesture.  I realized almost immediately that crabs populate the beach, and the fear of stepping over one accompanied me all evening long. I forgot that t...
Read more

The first few days

Image
  This post was supposed to be done earlier but, as you have read so far, a few things happened in between. By now a couple of weeks went by, so the right title would be "the first few weeks ". 😓 The first days were relatively easy, at least for me. I had the time to get the jet lag out of my body. I do know, though, that I struggle more when I travel east than west. I have noticed that I feel it more than I did when I was younger. It makes sense.  Normally, there are four hours difference between continental Europe and French Guyana. Just before departing, Europe switched to Summer daylight saving time (one hour ahead). This increased the gap to five hours. As our arrival was not expected (despite we confirmed that at least one month before), we had to improvise for the first night : we used our towels to cover the mattress and cover ourselves during the first night. Luckily we took extra towels, as we were expecting to swim often in the sea. Our personal flight neck pillo...
Read more