Autor: Paola NV
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Paris: The Cortazar Route, pt. 1
So I went to Paris. As I sit here with my cup of coffee, I can’t help but think that the Cortazar route was one of the best travel ideas that I’ve had. It allowed me to see Paris from a whole different perspective and to enjoy some city corners that are frequented by the…
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Looking for Julio in Paris
Recently, I found myself in a constant hurry because I had an exam coming and it occurred to me to also take an intensive French course. Today I can tell you I learned three important things: Having finished my semester successfully, I can now allow myself to take a short vacation with two of my…
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Books of February (2015)
This month I jumped across genres, so there’s a little bit of everything in the comments. Mrs Dalloway Last semester I had to read Virginia Woolf for two different courses. The first text I picked up was an essay on the modernist writer, in which she talked about how there are no boundaries or rules…
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What I read during Winter (2015)
This winter I was pretty busy with university, but thanks to some courses I found a couple of good old classics worth sharing. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man This a novel, by James Joyce, is partly autobiographical, since he tells about his own youth through his fictional alter-ego Stephen Dedalus. Throughout the pages, young…
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Chestnuts roasting on an open fire: el mercado navideño
Diciembre ya está a la vuelta de la esquina y yo amo con todo mi corazón todo lo que tenga que ver con Navidad. Amo las decoraciones, la comida, la música, ¡todo! Pero la mejor parte de estar en Alemania durante noviembre y diciembre es definitivamente el mercado navideño, Weihnachtsmarkt o Christkindlmarkt. Este mercado dura…
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Chestnuts roasting on an open fire: The Christmas Market
I’m super excited because December is practically here and I absolutely love everything that revolves around Christmas. The decorations, the food, the music, everything! But the best part of December in Germany is definitely the Christmas market (Weihnachtsmarkt or Christkindlmarkt). The Christmas market lasts the four weeks of Advent and sells everything Christmas-related: food, drinks,…
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