ENGLISH I went to Paris earlier this month for my annual trip to this French capital for this year’s second grandslam tournament of the year, the French Open, or Roland Garros. And here is the story of this trip. *** When I looked at this year’s calendar and matched it with the tournament schedule, I…
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#2296 – A Long Weekend
ENGLISH Today is the Whit Monday, or Pentecost Monday, meaning this weekend is a long weekend! Unlike the previous weekend, this long weekend is a “real” one as there is no bridging day in between, haha. Anyway as my Instagram (@azilko) followers have known, I made use of this long weekend for a weekend trip….
#2131 – A Weekend in Roland Garros 2018
ENGLISH Posts in the Tennis Weekend in Roland Garros 2018 series: 1. Introduction 2. Part I: Roland Garros 2018 3. Part II: Paris As usual, I arrived at the gate at around 9 AM. This was, of course, a little bit “too early” but this decision would ensure me to be at the front of…
#2121 – A Tennis Weekend Story
ENGLISH Posts in the Tennis Weekend in Roland Garros 2018 series: 1. Introduction 2. Part I: Roland Garros 2018 3. Part II: Paris So the main draw of this year’s French Open started about two weeks ago, which means this weekend was, finally, the time for my annual trip to Paris for the tournament this…
#2114 – A Weekend and A Monday
ENGLISH My general theme for this weekend was … definitely some rest! Haha 😆 . Somehow I felt quite tired coming to this weekend, even though I only had a short week at work last week. But actually, the short week had something to do with the tiredness; as the week was “short” because I…
#2081 – This Year’s Annual Trip to Paris
ENGLISH Every year since 2012, I always arrange a trip to Paris to watch the French Open (Roland Garros) tennis tournament. This year, obviously, is no difference. Earlier this week the tickets for this year’s tournament was sold to the general public. Of course I had marked this date since months before (lol) and scheduled…
#1950 – Early Summer 2017 Weekend TripS (Part IV: Roland Garros 2017)
ENGLISH Posts in the Early Summer 2017 Weekend TripS series: 1. Introduction 2. Part I: Lyon 3. Part II: Bremen 4. Part III: Thalys and Paris 5. Part IV: Roland Garros 2017 As usual, I went early to Stade Roland Garros, arriving there at around 9 AM and was amongst the first ten spectators at the…
#1937 – Early Summer 2017 Weekend TripS (Introduction)
ENGLISH So you know, in the last three weeks I had three weekend trips in three consecutive weekends: Lyon, then Bremen, then Paris, haha. So I was thinking of wrapping these three trips under one “theme”, and what I came up with was “Early Summer 2017 Weekend TripS” series 😛 . Posts in the Early Summer…
