Getting to the rice fields was more than just a little difficult. We had to take multiple buses and nobody was being very clear about...

Another town - another bullet train! For our first full day in Yangshuo we took a taxi to Jinlong bridge and paid for a bamboo raft down...

Chengdu = PANDAS And tea. And big Buddhas. We took an early morning bullet train to Chengdu on the 23rd of October and easily found our...

Second stop: Xi'an! Ruth, Pete, Thomas and I arrived mid afternoon in Xi'an by bullet train and easily found our hostel in the center of...

After a beautiful summer at home in the US, Thomas and I have now headed to China for the first stop on our Asia trip! We landed in...

Back in October I bought a little book named "Le Pays Basque dans la poche: Voies Vertes" which included 40 hiking and biking paths...

New apartment, same adorable city! Thomas has moved here to Bayonne to be with me while I teach. This means that we had to find an...

The month of January in Bayonne is dark and dreary. It rains everyday with very few pauses and practically no sunlight. Due to this, I...

Vacances Scolaries - Toussaint I had my first two weeks of vacation just three weeks after arriving in France and decided to go visit my...

First month complete and I'm absolutely loving it here. What am I doing in France? During the last week in September I moved to France to...