Oulu, Finland

Hi Vivi, I’ve found this city that I didn’t even know that existed, is in the middle of Finland. It’s called the Amsterdam of the north and is the winter cycling capital. I found it thanks to this viedo. Looks beautiful, and I’m sure you would love to cycle on the snow to go to school. I’m going to check more about it to see if it’s going to be the place to go, maybe during the second half of 2022....

December 11, 2021 · 1 min · Papá

I'm looking for a place to live

Hi Vivi, Now I’m at my mother’s house, trying to get up on my feet again and I’m looking for a place to live. I have this huge blank canvas, I can go anywhere but the USA and be with you, it’s hard to choose where to go next when the one thing I want to do is the one I can’t choose. I would like to live in a country where I don’t have to do immigration paperwork, where I can have a bicycle and that is flat, I would like a small city, something that is well taked care....

December 8, 2021 · 2 min · Papá

Oran, Algeria

Hi Vivi, [Oran] (https://goo.gl/maps/nHsFqtapyYndcq569) is my mother’s father, Fernando, birth place, he was son of French colonizers, they were called Pied-Noir, it means “Black feet”, the name comes because they French used black shoes at the time. I’ve never been in the country, only seen images online and it looks amazing, a place to visit in winter. Is very mediteranian, for me it has this very understandable architecture of the old world because when I went to Texas it took me a while to understand why things where build how they did it....

December 1, 2021 · 1 min · Papá

Rutchenkovo Train Station

Hi Vivi, The Rutchenkovo Train Station is the last thing that I’ve found still with our family name. It aint spelled in the same way but that’s what happens with translations from different alphabets. In this area is where my grandfather was originally, after the first World War the Russian Revolution started he had to leave the country, he was a young teenager, his mother negotiated with the Brithish and they left by boat from Odesa to Dubrovnic....

November 24, 2021 · 1 min · Papá

Why I wanted to live in Finland as a family

You were born on the October 25th 2018 and at that time Finland was prepearing to celebrate one hundred years of independece (it, had been conquered by Sweden and Russia in the past). To celebrate there independence day they curated a list of list where they were among the best in the world. It looked so good to me that I wanted that for us (you, Arthur, mom and me). Having proper 4 seasons, being able to have a multilingual education, in a less dense area (Texas at this time has a density of 43 people per square Km and Finland only 18 people per square Km), more secure and less car dependadnt....

November 6, 2021 · 11 min · Papá

My favourite one day trip

Carcassonne, France on the 14th of july. It’s my favourite one day trip. Carcassonne has the old town and the new town. I only care about the old town and in any given day the old town is full of people, but on the 14th of july there is a militar parade at the new town and for a few hours the old town is empty and you can walk the streets and enjoy it a lot....

November 5, 2021 · 1 min · Papá