✍️ About Me

I have always believed that travel is more than moving across maps. It is about listening, observing, and allowing a place to speak to you in its own language. When I began this blog project, I asked myself: Which country could best reveal how history, art, and daily life intertwine? My answer was France.

France, for me, has always been more than a postcard of the Eiffel Tower. It is a country where symbols carry weight, where a song, a flag, or even a handbag can hold centuries of meaning. It is also a country where the walls of the city speak, literally, through street art and protest. And it is a place where global voices converge—immigrants, students, artists—reminding us that France is not an island of identity, but a crossroads.

That is why I chose France as the stage for my reflections.

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🇫🇷 Why These Three Blogs?

• Icons, Anthems and Defining Figures
  I began with the foundations: the flag, the anthem, figures like Napoleon and Marie Curie. These are not just names or objects; they are the way France continues to tell its own story. Writing this piece was my attempt to understand France’s “language of symbols,” and how a traveler like me could begin to read it.

• Street Art in France
  From history’s monuments to the city’s walls—this blog was about stepping away from official narratives and listening to the voices that appear overnight, in spray paint and stencil. Street art showed me that France is still debating itself, still alive, still unsettled. As a traveler, it reminded me that the most authentic museums are sometimes on the corner of a street.

• Meaningful International Engagement
  France is not only French—it is global. From Marseille’s spice markets to UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris, I saw how cultures from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East all flow into the French identity. This final blog was about connection: how France engages with the world, and how, as a traveler, I engaged with people whose lives are shaped by these crossings.

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🌍 Why I Write

I write these blogs not to offer travel guides, but to share fragments of encounters—moments where France revealed itself to me, in symbols, in art, and in dialogue.

For me, choosing France was about learning how a place can be at once deeply itself and profoundly connected to the world. Through these three pieces, I hope to show readers not only what I saw, but how I began to see differently.

Travel is not just about moving. It is about listening. And France, for me, was a country that never stopped speaking.