Our first stop of the trip: Paris. While Theresa flew in from San Francisco, I took my flight from Hamburg and we met up in our hotel close to the Notre Dame. We haven’t seen each other in person for 8 months and therefore our reunion was long overdue. As it was already dark outside, we couldn’t do much anymore, so we just strolled through our new neighborhood and had a late dinner at a Lebanese street food place. We were amazed to see that, although it was a Sunday evening, many people were still out and about enjoying life and hanging out with their friends.  

Jennifer Herner

The next day started with a little bit of chaos: My work week began as per usual, but we also needed to check out from our hotel and check in to our Airbnb in the afternoon. To bridge the time of having no wifi connection, I left all my luggage in the hotel, found a Starbucks close by, had my usual morning meetings and looked up different working locations. I ended up going to the Centre Pompidou, as it contains a very spacious public library with lots of working desks for focused studying. Still, it was so quiet in this library that I felt highly conscious about taking my meeting calls in there and thus took my portable office outside to the floor of the balcony – I guess – besides my shaky internet connection - my colleagues and clients didn’t even notice anything out of the ordinary... or did you ;)?!   

Jennifer Herner