K Travel Notes

Over the last night it rained all night long, with frequent storms in between. Rain, thunder, rain, and rain again. I barely slept because of all of this. This morning I woke up, went downstairs. I saw the message from the flat mates asking me to keep an eye on the small river. I opened the window and saw the swimming pool on the brink of flooding. My brain just told me at that moment " Good morning sunshine! ". I forgot, though, that two sides of the propriety have a stream running through. That one grew much more than the swimming pool. Our landlord cleans it regularly, but the neighbor where it heads next does not. This creates a bottleneck. The other neighbors, luckily, have cut the grass and cleaned their gardens as well over the last two weeks. This has, for sure, reduced considerably the amount of debris. Overflown stream Our house has either the walls of the house itself or some small walls to make it a bit higher and prevent flooding. The only issue is that within t...

  Since the beginning of the year and, especially, after the last month, this is the first time that both of us are excited about what to come! 🥳 The adventure started to gently sink in .   We were looking forward to the 9 hour flight, cocooned, with entertainment. We boarded and we got to our places. The staff was very friendly. We chose well: we had two seats on the Airbus A330, which has rows of two seats instead of three or four. We had our space, our privacy. Planning pays out. 😉 The flight was very good, not as many turbulences as expected over the Atlantic Ocean but it took a little longer due to headwinds. Two more negative points were definitely the presence of the Wi-Fi, which did not work so I could not carry out the admin work that I had planned, and the fact that there was no choice in terms of food. To this day, I have no idea what I ate. It was fairly decent but I was a bit disappointed. In addition, the screen had some troubles along the flight, requiring mul...

  The following day we got up very early. Both were grumpy, sleepy and hungry. The best cocktail for a great journey. 😁 For sure, we were not so communicative. Once arrived at the airport we managed to get to the check-in. Unfortunately,   in Geneva people are supposed to go all the way to the French side ( flight to Paris ) for check-in/baggage drop-off, and then go back to the Swiss side for the security check. Yaay! 😔 The latter one, was fully packed with people but it went relatively quickly. We did underestimate the amount of flights at 7AM. We grabbed a quick (and expensive) breakfast and headed to the gate. 🏃 View from GVA-CDG Time for take off! Take off that I missed because I was sleeping already, as usual. I have this superpower that gets me sleeping as soon as there is the engine startup. Then, I wake up mid-flight, right on time for food.  The 40 minutes flight to Charles de Gaulle went fast. I did wake up right on time for food. A madeleine and some wa...

  There is not way around: it was a messy period . In the month prior to the departure we had to find a new place to live back home, as well as move. It was very intense for two reasons: many tenants did not want us to move in with such a short notice (2-3 weeks after), and it was suspicious that we were looking for a place with so little time. Actually, we planned way in advance and we had a place. We were supposed to move in at the beginning of March, have time to settle, carry out all the bureaucracy , prepare the 3-month stay, and leave. The tenant resigned at the last moment for family/personal reasons. Yaay! More stress and rush! 😐 We managed to do everything in the weekend before our flight, which was on Tuesday after Easter.   All the bureaucracy could not be officially carried out, and it will be done upon our return among the mountains.  As understandable, this did not give us much time to plan our stay in French Guyana. One of the most important things is that...

 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 f...