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,…
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….
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…
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…
Quite a special blog, since I have (almost) not been able to enjoy Vienna as a runner myself. Indeed, that was a tricky time for me as I was stuck with a long running injury for months. This tendonitis (I understood what it was months later) started at the end of January. I moved to…
An article a bit special today, as Grenoble is (somehow) my home city. I’ll try to be as unbiased as I can, even if the city itself is definitely not my favourite one for running… But definitively my favourite in France to live in, especially as a student (okay, I’m biased now). As usual, here…
Yes, I know, that’s a bit provocative and chauvinistic. I’m actually far from loving Paris (it’s quite the contrary!). At the time in moved there, I was thinking that Paris was not a running-friendly city (“but I’m not going to take the metro to go running?!”), but that was before moving to Hanoi and Kampala…
Berlin, my second “expat” destination, this time quite far from home but also a running-friendly capital city. Where to run in Berlin? Here is a selection of tested running spots. City profile Geography: Well, I guess I don’t need to spend too much time on this one. Capital city of Germany, North East of the…
