Récap de mai 2024 / May 2024 in review

Sur un mur de ciment, un tag dit « bonne fête maman je t'aime ».

Hi everyone! After the wonderful holidays and Interrail trip, May has been a month of rest, of mostly low energy, and of staying at home and trying not to go anywhere. I didn’t read much (compared to usual, that is), and my days were very filled between my job, my freelancing for Hylé (a great…

7 podcasts that I wish would come back

1 in 6 engineers This podcast was created by Mingshi Yang, an internationalization engineer at Meta, and gets its name from the fact that 1 in 6 engineers have work related to internationalization. It’s the shortest of the list with only 3 episodes, all of them fascinating and really well-written. One’s about encoding Myanmar languages…

Mon expérience après 4 ans d’Obsidian

Article J’avais dit, en 2020, que j’allais faire un article de blog entièrement consacré à mon utilisation d’Obsidian. On est en 2024 et il serait temps que je m’y mette : voici donc mon rapport à Obsidian. (Le titre de cet article est un mensonge, j’ai pas de date exacte sous la main mais il…

Récap d’avril 2024 / April 2024 in review

Ce mois-ci a été plein d’aventures avec mon voyage en Interrail, dont vous pouvez désormais découvrir tous les détails sur la page qui lui est consacrée. Il me reste encore du travail à faire, notamment ajouter le texte alternatif sur les images, mais ça va ! C’était fantastique, j’ai pris le soleil et la pluie…

Rome, Italy

Going to Rome This is my only train ride that’s in second class and on a completely full train. I’m sitting on a 4-seat contraption with three other people. And they’re all really nice! The man sitting opposite me keeps trying to peddle his cookies onto us to stop himself from eating the whole box,…

Verona, Italy

As I leave Salzburg on an very comfy ÖBB train at 11am, I’m ready for a 6 hour long journey. I am young and innocent and naive. When I left you yesterday, I was stranded right outside of the Salzburg Hauptbahnhof station. We were brought back to the main station after three quarters of an…

Salzburg, Austria

I will spend slightly less than 48 hours in Salzburg, the last city I’m truly excited about – Trento and Bolzano are nice enough but they’re mostly stops along the way to Milan, as I talked about in my last post. My hotel, Markus Sittikus, is really lovely. After a flight of stairs, you get…

Munich, Germany

The train ride between Berlin and Munich is long. I didn’t book my tickets in advance, as I wasn’t sure when I’d get up, and it’s very hard to find a seat – but when I finally do, it’s a smooth and comfortable ride all the way. The pilgrimage It is absolutely freezing, and the…

Berlin, Germany

I stayed in Berlin for one more day to see friends and recover. Tuesday The sleeper train cabin was a nice experience and I slept decently well, although I woke up too many times to count this as a full night. On arrival, I’m tempted to go back immediately: over the span of my 12…

Budapest, Hungary

The arrival I get off the train at 11pm after a really nice and smooth ride and only 20 minutes late, which is much better than what everyone has led me to expect from Eastern European trains. From the train station, I make my first terrible mistake: I hail a taxi instead of using an…