About me

I was born in January 1988 in Saint-Nazaire, a town on the French Atlantic coast where I spent my entire childhood. At 19, I left the family home and went studying chemistry in Rennes, in Brittany. I graduated as a chemical engineer in 2010, and a few months later I found a job in Switzerland, more precisely in Neuchâtel in the Jura mountains.

But the peaceful day-to-day life I had there eventually became to quiet for me. In 2016, I took a radical decision. I left Switzerland and went to Australia for a year on a Working Holiday Visa, with nothing more than my backpack and my camera. This journey changed my life forever; after that, nothing ever was the same anymore.

During the 12 months I spent in Australia, a new version of me came to life. I travelled for thousands of kilometers with my own campervan, I worked in a farm picking pears and apples, I became a barista in Melbourne, and I met dozens of other travellers from all around the world. When my visa came to an end, I couldn’t picture myself going back to my old tedious job, so I decided to keep on travelling: a few weeks around Europe, a month in Canada, an extraordinary stay in Hawaii, a second trip to Australia, but also a mixed experience in New Zealand, a huge cultural shock in Japan and a road trip in the American West. And then, in June 2018, I finally came back to my hometown of Saint-Nazaire.

I worked the entire summer at the Tourism Office, enjoyed it a lot, then got hired on a permanent contract in March 2019. This was the first step of a big career change, and also me settling down in the region where I grew up for the first time since 2007. But once again, I felt like something was missing. The successive Covid-19 lockdowns made me realise than even if I deeply loved Saint-Nazaire, it wasn’t where I belonged. I eventually quit my job in 2022, and in March 2023 I flew back to Melbourne, my favourite city in the world. I am now studying and working there, focusing on my desire to go further into my career change… and maybe settling down here more permanently. What will come in the next few years is still a bit blurry and uncertain, but I’m sure of one thing: there are a lot of great adventures ahead!