It was lovely to revisit Copenhagen last year, a great city all round that’s noticeably changed since I first visited. There were lots of little things I really appreciated this time which I hadn’t seen before like the revitalised migrant neighbourhood in Nørrebro and the Kastrup Sea Bath.… Read More Copenhagen retrospective
Exactly two months from now I’ll be a newly minted graduate in bioethics – assuming I finish my thesis next month – and packing my bags for the next country. At the moment I don’t even know what that next country will be, though I suspect it might be Croatia for a few days of R&R by… Read More A brief fling with The Netherlands
Given that making new friends seems to be one of my favourite pastimes, it’s little wonder that I’ve been enjoying myself here in Leuven. I said in a previous post that I wanted to write about all these new international friends, and lately I’ve been reflecting on it in the context of making friends in… Read More Friendship and loneliness in Leuven
Belgium, where I’m living now, was actually one of the first countries I ever visited; I spent almost a week here on my first ever trip to Europe at the age of 20. I went because of a childhood friendship with my Belgian penpal, who lived in a town outside of Antwerp called Oostmalle. Towards the… Read More More questions than answers about Belgium
I really enjoyed getting out of Leuven for the day and spending the day in another country — although I feel like I’m cheating by saying it’s another country because Luxembourg is only a few hours away and is tiny, probably the same size as Greater Metropolitan Sydney. The daytrip was organised by the Indian… Read More Luxembourg, a country with history but no future
The Travels of Elephant Woman 