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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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Sudoku on the Brain


By Lionel Mann, March 26th, 2007
I’m addicted. Train, plane, or bus, it doesn’t matter, I need my fix and it’s driving Nat nuts. Ever since we visited her Swedish family, I’ve been hooked. I blame it on Sussie, Nat’s sister. She and I played Sudoku for 9 hours while travelling to the country's far north for Christmas. We each took one puzzle of equal difficulty and raced to see who could finish it first. If that wasn’t enough, Sussie gave me an entire book of 100 puzzles as a Christmas gift. This of course, just thrilled Nat...read more

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High Over Hiroshima


By Nathalie Bibeau, March 16th, 2007
“Oh, I wouldn’t hesitate if I had the choice. I’d wipe em’ out. You’re gonna kill innocent people at the same time, but we’ve never fought a damn war anywhere in the world where they didn’t kill innocent people… That’s their tough luck for being there… I had no problem with it. I did what I was told, and I would do it again in the same circumstances” ...read more

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What the hell are you doing here?


By Nathalie Bibeau, February 9th, 2007
This is a seriously odd question to ask a person while she's buying a silky, refined cheese washed with champagne at a village market in the South of France. And when said cheese is about to be united under the kissing sun with a baguette, a bottle of chilled white wine, and freshly shucked oysters, the question becomes downright distressing. So, like all good hedonists, I choose ignorance and ...read more

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