Online Photo Editing

By Lionel Mann, April 29th, 2007

If you’re like many travellers, one of the first things you do after returning from a trip is regale friends with tales of your misadventures while marveling at your amazing photos. What? They’re not amazing? Crooked horizon lines, dull colours and red-eye weren’t supposed to be part of the picture...read more

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Les Moules à la Florent

By Nathalie Bibeau, April 21st, 2007

Welcome to Heaven. We were talking about France today, reminiscing about a beautiful dinner under the stars in the courtyard of a friend's house and...we simply had to put this up...read more

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Hotel Hilton

By Lionel Mann, April 14th, 2007

For those who find themselves in the capital of Ethiopia for more than a couple of weeks, there seems to be one stop that everybody makes. The Hilton Hotel. The home of stellar fruit juices, extortionate internet connections and the Tex-Mex wrapper. We often find ourselves there a couple times a week for a quick sanity top up...read more

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Hotel Wanza

By Nathalie Bibeau, April 14th, 2007

As I write, a steady and cadenced rain is falling on our tin roof. I can hear the light swing of Ethiopian pop music coming from the courtyard and the crumpled blankets on our bed are calling me. Our tiny room, which was clean just yesterday, is draped in melting clothes again and I just finished a very sad book. ...read more

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Adding it up in Addis Ababa

By Nathalie Bibeau, April 7th, 2007

There are certain assumptions you make when you travel. When you’re about to land in a new time zone, and the pilot says, “It’s 2:36am local time”, you adjust your watch and you assume it’s 2:36am. When you’re first learning your way around a new city, you pull out your trusty little map and you assume that the streets on it are so named because, well, those are their names. And let’s face it, unless you’re a character on a soap opera who’s been in a coma...read more

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Perfect Ethiopian Macchiato

By Nathalie Bibeau, April 3rd, 2007

It should be no surprise that Ethiopia, the home of coffee, has... well, good coffee. But the perfect Italian macchiato? Who knew. The Italians certainly left their mark when they stomped on this ground 50 years ago. Traditionally, a macchiato in the "home land" is made...read more

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