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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...

The Italian Alps: A Mosaic of Landscapes

Picture the Alps. Perhaps you’re imagining a vast mountain chain stretching over 1,200 kilometres across eight alpine countries, including Switzerland, Germany, Liechtenstein, and Austria to the north, Italy and Monaco to the south, Slovenia to the east, and France to the west....

Expanding the Self through Travel

You are hiking through the Caucasus Mountains in northern Georgia and would like to venture to a nearby village for a warm drink and some lunch. But your map doesn’t seem to match your surroundings and the only other person on the trail...

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...