The 7 wonders of my trips

Writing this blog is getting me back a lot of memories. When I started, I looked again at all the pictures from my trips, and I started to understand the amount of places I had visited. I am a traveler easy to please: I have enjoyed most of the destinations, there are a lot where I would like to go back, and there are a few that really impressed me. Tomorrow is the last day of the year, and year end is a period of summaries and lists ‘the best of...’, so I have prepared a list with the places I have liked the most from my trips until 2013. 

Conversations in the Atlas' valleys

It’s just a matter of references. I was once in a plane with an Indian friend, flying over the Alps, when he asked me ‘the Alps are quite small, right?’ I was surprised, I never thought about the Alps as small. ‘Well, not really... some peaks are over 4000 meters’ I told him, and he replied ‘so they’re small... Himalayas are over 8000 meters’. Uhm, yes, compared this way, the Alps are not so high, and neither is Atlas, with its highest peaks being around 4000 meters as well.

The enchanted valley

It is interesting how, depending on the regions we visit, our perception of the country can be very different. If I had to define Morocco in three words, it would be calm, hospitality, and music. But I think that somebody who has only been in Marrakesh would ask me where I found the ‘calm’. Well, not in Marrakesh. But during my trip I did not spend a lot of time in big cities, I mainly stayed in the Atlas and the desert, and there I found calm, hospitality, and music.

Tarn is dressed in autumn colors

 I didn't write for a long time (I was on holidays and, after that, I had no time...). Finally, I have found the time to look at the pictures from a day I spent in Tarn, at the end of October. Tarn is a region at the north of Toulouse that, in only one day, became one of my favourites in France. I'd like to go back, to see if it is always like this, or it was just the first sight. Or was it because the weather was so good? Or because the region was dressed in autumn colors?