In the middle of the Atlantic it was 5:45 pm and time again for the daily aperitif. The apéro as one says in French. Having left the tropical breezes of the French West Indies, the gigantic cargo ship Fort St. Georges, part of the Caribbean fleet of the French shipping company CMA-CGM, floated along calmly. It was day two of nine on a particularly serene journey from Guadeloupe to France; instead of whitecaps and seasickness there were gentle breezes and endless apéros.
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My fixation with Paris is that, no matter how many times one has been there, every time you sit down at a café or walk down a street, you can be sure to see a magical Parisian moment in action. Drinking coffee at an outdoor terrace it not just about caffeine, it is like sitting in a theatre; the street becomes the stage and the Parisians the actors, letting the travel step into what could be scenes straight out of French film.
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Spending an extensive amount of time in the Alsace region of France, my drink of choice has turned into white wine. Alsace is a region defined by its unique character: a little bit medieval, a little bit German, and a little bit more French. Architecture is characterized by the half-timber houses of the middle ages, and German specialties like bretzels and beer make their way onto Alsatian menus.
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Known for its “wild side”, Dominica is graciously covered in a vast array of mountainous jungle, providing for extensive exploration. The island is in fact the only one in the Eastern Caribbean to boast a UNESCO designated World Heritage Site.
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L’île papillon. The butterfly island, as Guadeloupe is known, its two islands forming two wings stretching into separate oceans. The more time I spend here, I see these wings stretching into two oceans, and at the same time representing Guadeloupe’s stretching out towards two different cultures. Far from the French métropole, here one is amidst the dichotomies that come from being a part of a European country, yet influenced by the particular Caribbean climate, landscape, culture and history.
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