I don't think I'm your typical French. Yet, my citizenship sometimes catches up with me. I don't mind it. I like to call myself a "word citizen" but this is the country where I was born, where I grew...
I don't think I'm your typical French. Yet, my citizenship sometimes catches up with me. I don't mind it. I like to call myself a "word citizen" but this is the country where I was born, where I grew...
When I first learned I was pregnant, some people asked me if I was going to move back to France for a few months.
The entire Beira Mar avenue was closed to traffic, and three separate blocos with revellers took over the streets.
It hit me in the “crackers & soup” aisle, of all places. I’ve been living in Canada for twenty years and I still don’t know what a typical Canadian dinner is.
Taking a long-distance bus to go from point A to point B is actually more physically taxing than it seems.
The grim forecast was all over local news before the Easter long weekend—“Significant rain expected!” “Exercise caution!” “Flood concerns along the Ottawa River!”
Missions? I have plenty, come to think of it. Travelling is a bit like a real-life egg hunt. You spend your time looking for things or trying to make sense of your environment using clues, and then...
After ten minutes in Pelourinho, two things became clear. First, if you’re ever going to set a meeting place in the area, don’t say, “by the old church.” Pelourinho is 40% historical monuments, 10%...
Sidewalks were paved, I wasn’t walking in the sand. I found water. There was no procession of miners marching in full gear covered with freshly mined copper.
Moving to a new country is one of these big decisions where your life can get awesomely better, awfully worst or more realistically, waver between these two extreme case scenarios.
It had been a while since our last Canada Day in the national capital, aka "for once we are the centre of the word" city.
Locals tend to think Recife is this super dangerous place but I didn't get that "must get out of here now' vibe over there. The streets were busy and chaotic but lively and people were friendly...
We decided it was time to graduate Mark from “easy international trips” (France, the US, Canada and Mexico) to “hell, let’s take an adventure”.