Saint Pierre et Miquelon

Hello everyone !

Today It's a little bit different than the other times as I've never been in this island. I don't know how but I'm really attracted by it, as I want to go there one day, at least to visit it in the same time of the United States. For those who don't know where is this island, it's next to the Canada in the Atlantic Ocean.

The official language of the country is the french as it's an overseas collectivy of France. However the population is speaking also english (with last British occupation) and Spanish (but almost no more today).

The funny thing is during the beginning of the 1900's it was not the fishing industry the best profitable but the smuggling of illegal booze !

France

Hello !

Today it's a special post for me as I'm French. I will show one of my picture of the city where I'm living for 5 years. My city is Saint-Etienne it's next to Lyon for people who don't know it. (And for French people: no I don't care about the fight between local people Stephanois/Lyonnais)

This picture was taken during the christmas market from a ferris wheel. It shows the main square of the city with little houses to buy local food, local craft, hot wine, churros, crepes ...

I will change my anecdotes for this post because I have too many things to say. I will talk to you stereotypes about French are they true or false.

All french people don't wear a French beret or neither a striped jersey.

We eat everyday a baguette.

We wash ourselves everyday and we use perfum but only when we are clean.

We don't drink wine to each dinner or everyday.

French people are not lazy even if we do a lot of stikes, but it's to defend our rights.

A huge bad thing about us: it's we are rude sometimes, but compared with Scottish people we are very rude...

Some French people speak english (I'm a proof of it) but as we don't have a right system to learn any languages, after school many people forget this language.

Spain

Hi there !

Today I will show you a beautiful country in the south of Europe, Spain. I went only in Barcelona but i really liked this place with the monuments and the architecture. This picture represents the parc Guëll it's a very famous parc with the multi color chameleon in mosaic. 

It's the second language spoken in the world before english and after chinese. 

What's more the name of the country changed many times during centuries. First North Africain people called it Iberia (which means land of river), after Greeks called it Hesperia (which means land of the setting sun, because of the place in europe). Then Carthaginians called it Ispania (which means land of rabbits) and finally the Romans latinized the name to Hispania and with the time it becomes España.

Italy

Hello everybody !

Today I will talk to you about Italia and more precisely Sicily because my aut is living over there. I went to see her and her family twice but it was a long time ago. As I'm a very organised woman, I didn't find my photos ... Fortunatly my cousin helped me and sent me some.

For some who don't know where is this island it's the football next to the boot whi is Italy.

This picture has been taken in Catania the city where is living my aut and all my cousins. It's a very beautiful city just next to the sea and not far from the Mount Etna which is still alive. 

First I have an advice for you, if you want to drive in the south of Italy you must be a warrior !

My story is a little more cultural today, it's about the history of this island. At the beginning it was a greek territory, then many different pupolation and religion went here like arabs, germans or jews.

Quebec

Hello there

Today I will speak about a contry that i really would like to go, but for the moment i don't have enough money and time. Then thanks to my father I can go during little moment to the "Parc Regional des Septs chutes". 

This picture represent a small village with a lot of snow and as you can see it's impossible to move with a car. So they don't have any choice to use ski-mobile to go grocery shopping.

I have some informations for you whose one is useless but funny. The first thing is a Quebecois is not a French but they feel european still. And about the funny thing is in the world there are only 2 cities with an exclamation mark in their name and one of them is in Quebec : Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!

Portugal

Hi everyone !

Today it's about Portugal I went in the south, in Faro, maybe you know where is it as it's a very touristic place during the summer especially for scottish people !

Thanks to my boyfriend to invite me there it was just an amazing journey !

It was very hard for me to chose a picture to represent well Portugal, there are all magnifique. This one is a church in Faro, almost all churches are with the same arabian style.

I'm talking about "La Festa de São João do Porto" it's one of the most famous party in the country it's during the 23rd June night. People have to hit beautiful girls 

on their head with a plastic hammer or garlic flowers.

Introduction

Hi everybody!

This is my fisrt post I will introduce myself a little and explain you the goal of my blog.

I'm a French student in the third year in Business in Scotland. For one of my class I had to create a blog about something that I like. And I thought during a week which subject can I pick up? Then I remembered that I want to travel a lot in different countries and meet new people with different cultures to exchange about the way they live.

If you want I speak about another country or a different city in a country that I already used just send, or correct a mistake of mine, send me a message :D I will be happy to do that !

In this blog I will provide you many pictures took by myself or my friends, or some times from internet if I've never been in a country and I will provide you each time a funny story or a part of the country history which is not famous. As all my flatmates travelled a lot I have many pictures to show you.

This year I'm leaving in Paisley in Scotland and I decided for my first picture to represent this area with the city Edinburgh as it's one of the most beautiful place (for me) in this country. 

In Scotland there is the most important ginger population (roux for french) in the Europe at least.

Feel free to let me a comment or to send me a message about something you like or you dislike in my blog. I'm aware about all submissions :)