Daily Life in Boston

Trick or treat // Halloween night in the streets of Boston

October 31st, my first Halloween in the United States. We usually don’t celebrate Halloween in France: “commercial” and “it’s not our tradition” are the two main arguments for being blase about it… But here, it’s huge.

Fall to-do list // 5 things I don’t want to miss

Let’s face the truth: fall is coming. And already here actually. First thing to say about it, I’ve never seen so far seasons so well “organized”: the day before fall, it looks like a summer

Independence Day // America, flags & fireworks

For a long time, Independence Day was only a movie with the White House, aliens and Will Smith. That was before moving to the USA. Now, I know that Independence Day is a holiday with big

6 months in Boston

We’ve been in Boston for 6 months. I feel like Boston were “my” city now. So much changes happened in these 6 months: our daily life, new friends and more generally… a new way of

Along the Charles River // Biking, geese and rowing

Last Sunday night, to avoid the spleen of this specific night, we wanted to spend time outside. We always see people running, and we wondered “why not us”, and then we really thought about it

Home sweet home // We moved out!

We did it! We’ve moved in a new, nice, calm and sunny flat… Long story short, I love it. I’m so glad we’ve changed, it wasn’t easy. At first we were told it was impossible

Boston by bike // I have a new bicycle

Riding the streets, hair flying along the wind, looking up at buildings… Boston seems a bike-friendly city, with cycling routes. And Boston is so anti-subway (so slow, and so few) that it’s the liberation we’ve

Life as an expatriate // Becoming a Cheap Bastard

We had to live the last week of March as ‘Cheap Bastards’. We spent carelessly our money by going out: restaurants, bars and so on… In fact, I don’t really know how or why, but

The laundry time experiment

*Doing the laundry myself is ruining my nail polish Somebody told me once, that you knew that you were an adult when you owned your washing machine. But in our new flat, we have to