Wandering Secrets

Those who have kept in touch with me know that teaching in China wasn’t always easy. But towards the end of my contract, having gotten used to… well, everything,  I looked at my job with what was missing at first: positivity. And teaching in China became all of the sudden the most positive experience I […]

This is my personal experience of the situation, many others have different things to say!   This is something I’ve wanted to talk about for a long time. Among the billion other things that changed for me in China is the consideration of the human body. Whether it is medical or sexual, the human body […]

“This is Versailles, Madame” was told Marie-Antoinette when she questionned the etiquette applied during her reign. When Louis XIV (aka: “le Roi Soleil”) made Versailles the heart and the icon of his powerful reign, everything was about appearances. The royal boats on the canal (“Grand Canal”), the eleven fountains of the gardens, the fireworks to […]

So you are thinking about moving to China. Your hopes are up, your luggage is almost ready and you know how to say hello in Chinese. Good. Now, what you need to know before getting on the plane, these things I wish someone had told me before setting foot in China.   1. Assuming you’re […]

I will never be able to describe what spending a year in China is like to someone who hasn’t been there no matter how precise, how alive the anecdotes might be. China is China and will be China, the giant powerful mystery of Asia. As the Great Wall, China stands in the world, cold, undefeatable, […]

Lately we have found ourselves missing the feeling of having a home. We quit our jobs and left our apartment almost two years ago to backpack several countries and work in China. As some of you may know, life in China wasn’t easy ( that’s the least we can say) but in the end I […]

Finding something to say when you are really on holidays is no easy task. Tired of all the scams, of being put away for being physically different, of spending 24 hours a day just the two of us, we decided to stop our trip in Laos and head for some beach in Vietnam, until Guillaume’s […]

Places like Vientiane have nothing to offer to the traveler, except perspective. For tourism, the city has no real interest and most travelers only stay the night before heading to more exotic places. But we have to spend four days here and this is what I’ve learnt. The only affordable food is the western one. […]