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Articles by Juliette Giannesini

French woman in English Canada. Occasionally: speaks Mandarin or Spanish, bitches about the Canadian weather, writes left-wing rants, gives test to her students so that she can read the paper and have breakfast, speaks of cultural difference or goes backpacking across the world. And enjoys Canada as her new home.

Welcome To The Jungle

December 3, 2011 – 8:15 am | 27 Comments

I’m still a travel junkie. I’m afraid there is no cure for it.
On Decem­ber 14, Feng and I will land in Can­cún, Mex­ico, for seven weeks of travel. As usual, we have no defined travel plans. We will go wher­ever the chicken buses will take us.
Fol­low us on the road… Wel­come to the jungle!

Picture of the Week: Man on the Roof

December 2, 2011 – 8:10 am | 8 Comments

As the joke goes in Canada, we have two sea­sons: win­ter and con­struc­tion. And with win­ter approach­ing fast, the city is try­ing to wrap up many con­struc­tion projects, but some roads are still a mess.

Fall Sky

November 30, 2011 – 8:15 am | 24 Comments

Between adjust­ing the clock back­ward and the short late fall days, the sun now sets around 4:30 p.m. The down­sides are obvi­ous: every­one feels tired and it’s hard to go back home in the dark. But on the plus side, we reg­u­larly get to see won­der­ful sunsets.

I Love Moo

November 28, 2011 – 8:20 am | 20 Comments

I never truly caught the online shop­ping bug. In fact, the only times I get up from the couch to go get my credit card in my wal­let are to buy Thread­less t-shirts (because they are unique) and books on Ama­zon (because they are much cheaper than at Chap­ters).
And photo products.

Foodie Review: Dick's Drive-in & Dairy Dip

November 26, 2011 – 8:23 am | 20 Comments

To a lot of French, food in North Amer­ica means junk food. But as I real­ized when I came to Canada, there is a huge dif­fer­ence between your usual sad-looking fast-food combo and the food served in local greasy spoons.
Yes, there is such a thing as a good burger.

Picture of the Week: Occupy Ottawa, a Month Later

November 25, 2011 – 8:20 am | 6 Comments

Last week­end, I walked through Con­fed­er­a­tion Square, where Occupy Ottawa set­tled. I hadn’t gone back since the day the move­ment started.

Ottawa Does Not Suck

November 23, 2011 – 8:30 am | 28 Comments

Come on guys. Ottawa does not suck!
It’s funny how pop­u­lar capital-bashing is in the new world: Aus­tralians with Can­berra, Amer­i­cans with Wash­ing­ton DC etc. The old world usu­ally have cap­i­tal envy—French may not like Parisians but most acknowl­edge that Paris is some­what of an excit­ing place to be.

In The Woods

November 21, 2011 – 8:10 am | 18 Comments

On the week­end of Novem­ber 11, I packed a small bag, left my com­puter and my city life behind and headed to Bour­get, a small vil­lage in East­ern Ontario. It only took a forty-minute drive to get there but as soon as we hit Vars, we entered another world of farms, straight roads and no traf­fic. Wel­come to the countryside.