Diving in Raja Ampat: a first-timer guide
Would you believe me if I said I wanted to hate diving in Raja Ampat? I feared the place …
How to be a good dive buddy in 15 tips
Dive buddies can make or break a dive. Safety in recreational diving is based on the redundancy of equipment between two scuba divers; who your dive buddy is can determine whether or not you will enjoy your dive while feeling safe underwater. After 10 years …
5 reasons to embrace local diving
Travelling locally to go scuba diving, right next to your doorstep or regionally, can be a great idea to try solo travel at the beginning, as you may feel safer not to go too far from home. Beyond the risk of feeling homesick on the …
Rediscovering my local dive sites in Brittany
For most of us, scuba diving equals travelling to warm and exotic destinations. While I can’t deny how good it feels to dive in 30°C crystal clear water for hours, in times when travel is not possible, does it mean we should give up on …
2 weeks on the French Riviera: my ultimate itinerary for scuba divers
From my first dive in Port-Cros National Park in 2016 to my dives in the Esterel area last summer, I kept exploring for 4 years every harbour and village I could, feeling I hadn’t seen enough to create such an itinerary. How could I fit …
Bringing your phone underwater: is it such a good idea?
As our phones are getting more and more evolved, embedding always higher quality cameras, some of us just ditched the idea of owning a separate camera. To be fair, the perspective of travelling light without any bulky photography equipment is appealing. This is especially the …
Top 5 things to do in Menton, my new hideaway on the French Riviera
Let me introduce you to this little piece of France, at the very end of the French Riviera, nestled between the borders of Italy and Monaco. A short walk along the scenic seashore surrounded by mountains is already a hint about its long international heritage …
Plastic-free & Reef-safe: finally, the sunscreen I was waiting for!
Becoming the ultimate responsible diver is not an easy quest as I detailed in a post of my diving blog where I was listing the things I could do better and the ones that still represented a challenge. However, the good news is, as the …
Extraordinary Esterel: diving & hiking from St-Raphael to Mandelieu
It was the third time I was spending the summer on the French Riviera. I can’t believe I passed, again and again, the Esterel mountain range, as I was going diving in Nice from Toulon, without ever stopping! It only took a hike and a …