Author: Nicola Brown

Amsterdam’s Love Affair with Light

Amsterdam is a city of contrasts. Historic, narrow 17th-century buildings and canals coexist with liberal drug, prostitution and same-sex marriage laws. But no contrast is so clearly embraced as the one that continues to permeate the Netherlands’ approach to artistic...

Why Vancouver Feels Like Home to Strangers

Perched on an outer edge of the Stanley Park sea wall in Vancouver, it would be easy to forget I am in the middle of one of Canada’s major urban centres. Standing still and silent, I scan the water’s surface hopefully...