My Celebrated Blue Period

Posted: October 22, 2014 at 4:18 am

When I was a senior at college, the guys I lived with thought I was the coolest in our dorm. I wasn’t, but I liked that they thought so. Thirty…

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Medical Scare

Posted: October 22, 2014 at 4:16 am

Flying back to Canada after a lonesome house hunting trip in Provence, I scored the holy grail of airline travel on the Toronto-to-Vancouver portion: my own pod. On all previous…

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Bratislava Beer

Posted: October 22, 2014 at 4:14 am

The train rolled into Bratislava at 6 a.m. with two clean and rested cyclists on board. With an hour to spare before our train to Austria, we took seats in…

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Bagel Story

Posted: October 22, 2014 at 4:12 am

Wandering along the narrow, twisting lanes of centre-ville toward the Place des Prêcheurs market, I spied a small restaurant/bakery on rue Bueno Carriero with an impressive outdoor lineup of hungry…

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A Balanced Diet in Czechoslovakia

Posted: October 22, 2014 at 3:46 am

When Nickipedia and I finally boarded the train in Bratislava to take us back to Vienna, we went straight to the dining car and ordered every salad and fruit cocktail…

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