Pass that …salt

We’re now concluding month two in the Kingdom of the Netherlands and I’m more *foodsick than ever. Dutch food is bland and joyless and they know it. Part of the reason I’m feeling this way is because all I have to eat my own cooking in this country. It’s too expensive to eat out here [...]

At home she’s a tourist

Despite all the Adbusters talk of my teen years, I have never actually been a protest. Well, unless you count that time in first year when I covered a protest an increase in Ontario tuition fees for The Eyeopener. Which I don’t. Real protests have picket signs. And flyers saying things like “You need to [...]

Bruxelles sprouts

The first thing I noticed about Bruxelles was the smell of urine. The second thing I noticed was that it was like an alternate reality version of Canada. Belgium can be geographically and culturally divided into two main parts: the northern Flanders (Flemish, basically another name for the Dutch language) and the southern [...]