A short blog to share with you the routes I could try in various cities during my stay in Morocco, whether I was travelling for work or for fun. I couldn’t try and compare different routes as I only ran once in every city (except Tangiers but I just sticked to the corniche). Each time,…
I know many blogs have been written already about running safely as a woman. Reason being that unfortunately, sexist and inappropriate remarks, annoying guys and sexual harassment do happen in every country. I also faced problematic behaviours and remarks when running in France: the catcalls in Paris’ streets, the bad jokes in Grenoble, and I…
Spoiler: yes, I may have found in Casablanca one of my favourite running spots so far. At least probably my favourite expatriation destination so far. In any case, definitely a second home. But first let’s rewind, because that story didn’t start so well, though, did it? First, I arrived in Morocco still mourning Uganda, without…
If Rwanda is called “the land of a thousand hills”, Uganda could legitimately clame a similar name. The capital city, Kampala, is perched at 1000 meters high in average, the top of some hills exceeding 1300 meters. Originally built on 7 hills (now it has spread on many more), there is basically no way to…
Ah Kampala, my first real job, my first time settling down somewhere for more than 8 months and, above all, my first time in Africa! And for a first step on the continent, I found myself in one of the cradles of running, the homeland of Cheptegei and some of the world’s best long-distance runners….
If you are settling in or traveling to a new city and wonder where to go for a run, running and GPS apps can be a good source of inspiration. As I’ve been regularly moving to different cities, I had the opportunity to test and try some of them whether it was to understand where…
Hanoi, my first time moving out of Europe, my last semester as a student, and one of the weirdest but best experience I had, in the middle of the covid pandemic. Hanoi, also probably the least running-friendly city I ever lived in, bustling, sometimes extremely hot, and highly polluted. This article will be relatively short…
If I had to summarise my life, and particularly my years as a student, it was a continuous succession of packing/moving/unpacking/packing/moving/unpacking… After moving here and there several times, sometimes just for three or four months, I ended up identifying and building a list of essential items for running and sports. I learned to streamline the…
Coming back from Vienna in June still stuck with my injury, I was determined to use my two months in France to get treated and recover properly before leaving again in September. Summer programme: physio twice a week, swimming and cycling waiting to hopefully go back to running again one day or another. But it…
Turin, Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Madrid, Hanoï, Kampala, Casablanca… All those cities I moved to and those I visited in my host countries and around. And every time, these same questions: where can I go running around here? How to get to the nearest park? Where can I safely plan an interval training session? Where can…
