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Where I've been.

31 countries, 4 continents, a lot of overly-sweet coffees. Not a passport-stamp collection — places that taught me things, sometimes about markets, more often about myself. Click the pins, there are stories behind.

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Countries
4
Continents
2
Bases — Lille / Madrid

PS — Thailand counts triple.

The list.

In alphabetical order. Some for a few days, others for several years. All of them left a mark.

Three ways of traveling.

Leisure travel, business travel, and travel that becomes an anchor. Three very different rhythms.

To understand

Thailand, Japan, Malaysia, Egypt, Kenya, Senegal, Morocco. Where the cultural gap is wide, where you learn to rephrase before asserting. The field is a better teacher than the books.

To work

UK, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Singapore, Kuwait, Qatar, Dubai. Markets, sales cultures, ways of booking a meeting. Each country has its own commercial grammar.

To anchor

France (the North, Lens, RC Lens), Spain (Madrid today). Two countries where I live, where I know the streets, the bakers, the habits. Traveling is also knowing where to come back.