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Go Sens, Go !
I remember, when I first came to Canada, still innocent… I then didn’t know that :
1) Hockey players had weird names:
- “Brindamour” (which translates as “a piece of love”…)
- “Latendresse” (”tenderness”… how ironic for a hockey player !)
- “Le Cavalier” (”horserider”… ditto)
2) Fighting is expected, blood cheered and missing teeth mandatory (teethless smile after [...]
Ten Things I Can’t Do (and really, does that matter ?)
1) Drive: it’s embarrassing but hey, better laugh about it. I failed my driving test three times in France, finally got a driver license in Canada but seldom use it. However, I do know how to properly drive around a roundabout, a trick that few North American seem to master.
2) Do maths in my head: [...]
Ten songs - Ten travelling mindset
I’m addicted to music. Sounds are probably one of the first thing coming to my mind when I think of traveling, from the crowded markets of Latin America to the busy European cafés, from the sound of silence in the Chilean desert to the sound of the wind on the peak of a mountain.
I always [...]
Words Of Fucked Up Wisdom
Heard about the guy who fell off a skyscraper? On his way down past each floor, he kept saying to reassure himself: “so far so good… so far so good… so far so good..” But how you fall doesn’t matter. It’s how you land which matters the most.
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Long time ago, somewhere on the road :
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