As many of you know, I spent a month in France last summer volunteer working on organic farms in France, with the WWOOF program (stands for “Willing Workers on Organic Farms,” and is a worldwide network of which France is one national group). I wrote two posts about it, one from my first experience at [...]
I apologize again for being off the radar. After returning home from my trip I had to venture out to Montreal to do some apartment hunting for my move to the city that commences on the 27th of August. Things have been very busy and jittery, and I have been relaxing into the embrace of [...]
Maybe it was because of the cloudy sky that makes colours pop and photographing a dream, but Prague immediately struck me as a really beautiful city. Being in Prague hardly gives me the ability to make many observations about the Czech Republic (or rather, I am at a loss as to what to gage from [...]
I had a total blast in Austria, and as I expected came to find the ultimate in vegan friendliness - its name is Vienna. Immediately upon entering Austria I noticed the increase of health consciousness: fruit, smoothies and juices available for purchase, falafel places at the train station itself. In other news, [...]
Budapest was a striking contrast to everything that was Sarajevo. Brilliantly clean, wide boulevards, spotless metro, pristine neighbourhoods, availability of vegetarian food. I have to admit it was a bit of a relief. I really enjoyed Sarajevo, but I realized in Budapest that I had felt unease there… uncomfortable seeing all of [...]
While mystery surrounded Bosnia from the beginning of planning my journey (which may have something to do with the fact that my guidebook covers Western, not Central Europe), as I rode the bus from Croatia into my first stop, Mostar, I could see immediately that Bosnia would be a fascinating part of my trip. [...]
Croatia was a blissful vacation from my vacation, the kind of place you would want to escape to in the dead of a Canadian winter (except that technically it would be colder at that time in Croatia). Evidently the week before I arrived it had been pouring a kind of smattering rain for about [...]
My time in Italy was limited (for various reasons) to 11 days, which I carefully planned along the lines of a makeshift art history tour. It enabled me to see many of the artworks I studied in person, and I made a special trip to Bologna for a somewhat-unknown sculpture that had knocked my socks [...]
I want to apologize for the recent series of dull and very didactic posts, where I mechanically describe my trip. Everything I experience is pretty much always “breathtaking,” “meaningful,” “extraordinary,” and especially “beautiful.” Not much to report on anything ugly or boring, so I tend to overuse these sorts of adjectives and end up gushing [...]
Maison La Source was in the Rhone-Alpes area, close to Lyon; set in the mountains. It is not really a farm, but actually an ecological bed-and-breakfast. The vegetable and fruit gardens are thus maintained to feed its habitants organically and healthfully. It is run by Christine and Nicolas Molle.
The house was recently overhauled to ecologically incorporate [...]
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