Dubai

Hello !

Today I'm talking about a beautiful city situed in the United Arab Emirates: Dubai! It's known for his luxury shopping or his unreal achitecture like the Burj alArab (the famour tower with the sail form) or this one the Infinity Tower.

As it's THE city of lack of proportion I will detail you the most crazy things that exist in Dubai. Some of you will already know some facts like the Palm Jumeirah is doing like a palm, but you won't know certainly that Dubai bought enought sand to fill in 2,5 times the Empire States Building. It's also possible to see a lot of gold in walls in Burj alArab, you can cover a quarter of a soccer field with all this gold. And then there is the Dubai Mall with 1200 stores !!! but also its ski runs and I think they want to import penguins (if you want to celebrate your birthday with them? )

Poland

Hi !

This picture has been given me by one of my flatmates who lives in Lublin in Poland. She showed me some pictures of her city and it's a very beautiful city. This hudge city is placed near the border with the Belarus and the Ukraine.

Today I'm talking to you about history in Poland because there is a stereotype about Poles: they are all anti-semitic. But that's false (or at least for the majority). The main example is during the 2nd World War the Nazis did the Holocaust. Unfortunately anybody teach in the scholl (in France) that in Poland it was the only country with the capital punishment for entire family to save jews! However that didn't stop Poles to save Jews because they rescued at least 450.000 Jews from the Holocaust.

Since this event, the Holocaust is in all minds and nobody wants to begin that again but for people who lived that, this fear is still there against strangers.

Finland

Hello !

Today I'm talking about one of my flatmate who lives in Finland. It's her who gave me this picture (beautiful for me). She explained me that almost all the residents live in Helsinki or at least in the south. There are more tourists in the north only during winter as Santa Claus is living in Lapland. I would like to add two pictures for this article to show you Helsinki and the country but it's not fair for the other articles. 

So I chose this one, it's one of the most famous square in the capital. If I don't do any mistake, outside of the picture just on the left there is the parliament (Eduskuntatal).

The good news for Helsinki it's that the city is ranked at the 2nd safest city in the world just after Luxembourg.

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.