WHAT WOULD YOUR LIFE LOOK LIKE ELSEWHERE?
Ever wondered how much your life would change if you were to move halfway across the world or even to a neighbouring country? Or, perhaps, y
WHERE IS THE HAPPINESS? PART II: THE DANISH WAY
In the recent years, Danes have earned the reputation of a pretty happy nation: their country has topped the UN’s World Happiness Report thr
WHERE IS THE HAPPINESS? PART I
A couple of weeks days ago, I was working on a translation assignment for a project on urban planning and city development. It reminded me o
WHAT DOES YOUR PASSPORT'S COLOUR MEAN?
Ever wondered when waiting in the passport control queue why people carry different coloured passports? It is no secret that national...
FLOWER ETIQUETTE, SUPERSTITIONS, AND 11 OTHER THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT RUSSIA
You don't really understand your homeland and culture until you have lived abroad. It is not so much about comparing two or more places but
TO SMILE OR NOT TO SMILE
The other day I was catching up with a friend of mine who had just come back from Russia. Always exciting to hear about how foreigners...
THE VANILLA CUPCAKES OF WORLD CITIES: NICE BUT DULL
Have you ever been somewhere that is, on a whole, pretty nice, but somehow incredibly boring? It’s like a vanilla cupcake: it’s fine,...
ARE WE A GENERATION OF TRAVELLERS?
A couple of years ago, when I was about to move from Canada to the Netherlands for a semester abroad, moving halfway across the globe...
