While you’ve got to love the 1st-6th arrondissements, straddling the Seine and packed with grandiose Parisian palaces and apartment...

The Latin Quarter is probably one of the best known and most adored areas of Paris, unsurprising given its majestic building oldy-worldy...

Days since last round up: 21 Best bit of vocab: des bribes (snippets, snatches) Reading: Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement by Assia...

It’s not an area of Paris that you’d be likely to know or visit if you don’t live here, but, like the 9th, its local, quartier vibes give...

Days since last round up: 21 Lockdown status: officially in a semi-confinement, but you wouldn’t think it from the streets of Paris Best...

For one of the first Paris editions of favourite finds, a selection of local discoveries stumbled across and sought out while getting to...

It’s not a surprising or especially original location choice, but with its characteristic steep steps and constant glimpses of the Sacre...

Days since last round up: 14 Firsts: assignment submitted Major achievements: Paris, somehow, has still not been locked down Language...

Hank vegan burger My first ever Deliveroo! This was my first evening in Paris, self-isolating and having got up at 3am for an early...

Location: somewhere between Paris and Quimper, Bretagne Days since last round up: 12 Firsts: travelling outside of Paris! Major...

Days since last round up: 14 Firsts: first week of term, first full week of work, first long runs in Paris Major achievements: no...

Days since last round up: 22 Miles from Munich: 426 Firsts: first travel to Europe with a visa, first flight of 2021, first (and second!)...

Days since last round up: 33 Miles from Munich: 920 Major achievements: surviving 24 weeks abroad (during a global pandemic) Reading: A...

Obviously opportunities to eat out in lockdown have been limited, and it’s been sad to check the websites and facebook pages of some of...

Days since last round up: 14 Weeks spent in lockdown: 4 Kilometres run: over 100? Reading: German Amok by Feridun Zaimoglu Weather:...

Luckily, this foodie paradise in the heart of Munich counts as food shopping, and where it doesn’t, it mostly offers takeaway options, so...

With lockdown in full swing, here are a few favourites from the last weeks of October, which just made it in before everything shut down....

Days since last round up: 14 Weeks spent in lockdown: 2 Best bit of vocab: Stutenkerl (a bit like a gingerbread man, but out of brioche...

Days since last round up: 7 Hours until lockdown (at time of writing): 6 Major achievements: two children delivered safely to...

Days since last round up: 7 Estimated fluency: well I hope it’s around 80%, because I’m coming up to my last month and a half here Best...