For my birthday last summer, my aunt bought me Tom’s Daily Plan, the first cookbook by English diver Tom Daley. Upon flipping through the pages there were already so many recipes I wanted to try. I spent a few weeks following the included workout plan and cooked up some amazing dishes. One of my biggest … More I Ate Nothing but Tom Daley Recipes for a Week and I Feel Great
In November I started practicing Spanish on Duolingo, so I’d be able to say more than just “cerveza” or “agua por favor” on my next trip to Spain (which most certainly will be happening again). It’s gotten me thinking about the other languages I’ve learned, or at least tried to learn, in my adult life. … More Learning Danish vs. Learning Swedish
At the beginning of this year I wrote a long post which included a rant about how much I hate New Year’s as a holiday and that I think resolutions are stupid. Well, all that is still true. But the reason I had written the post in the first place was to look back on … More Another Year Over
Don’t worry: though the title of this post may suggest it, I’m not about to type up the entire sixteenth chapter of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince for you (that’s also a lot of work). But I thought it was appropriate for a post about one of the things I was looking most forward … More A Very Frosty Christmas
I was lucky with my travel opportunities in November: in addition to my trip to Malaga, I also had a long-awaited visit to London to look forward to at the end of the month. My BFF Sheila and her boyfriend Curtis were visiting Europe for the first time and graciously invited me to join them … More Hopping On and Off in London
If there’s one thing I consider myself an expert in, it’s geography. I can name every country in the world and its capital, I know for the most part which territories belong to which nations, and yesterday I even submitted a goof to IMDb about characters who mispronounced country names in an episode of a … More Malaga Part 3: Accidentally Climbing Promontories in Gibraltar
We woke up on Sunday morning in Malaga a little late and a little hungover. Luckily, sleeping in actually worked well with our plans for the day. W had discovered that a lot of Malaga’s famous tourist attractions are free at certain times in the afternoon on Sundays. So after a lazy breakfast at the … More Malaga Part 2: The Sights
Canadians rightfully have a reputation for winter resilience. We’re used to snow and can handle weeks worth of -30°C. You’d think with that kind of training I’d be able to handle the mild winters in most of Europe, but I really can’t. The fog, the constant grey clouds, the poorly heated buildings, at times it’s … More Malaga Part 1: The 25-Hour Day
In the past five years, I’ve lived in four different countries, and one thing I’ve learned is that moving to a new place is never as easy as you might imagine. One of those countries is the one in which I grew up, Canada. Of the other three, one I moved to to study abroad, … More Tips for Moving Abroad
I have had a string of bad Halloweens. Last year I wrote a big rant about my bad Halloweens that I found again recently, and I felt a little uneasy reading it. Of course, in the grand scheme of things, one doesn’t need a good Halloween to be happy. On the other hand, it really … More A European Halloween
