French Archives - Dr. Nicole Basaraba

By - Nicole Basaraba
Posted on May 27, 2013July 23, 2013
Posted in Canada, Culture

Cavern – A wine and cheese experience in Edmonton

Cavern, an import retail cheese vendor and cafe/bar that has a choice wine list, spirits and heartwarming caffeinated beverages. It’s always a bonus when you hear about a new place from a friend and Cavern lived up to it’s reputation. The Concept Cavern is a specialty retail cheese shop that also has the option of

By - Nicole Basaraba
Posted on January 4, 2013May 29, 2015
Posted in Belgium, Lifestyle, Living in Brussels, Travel

21 Things I Miss About Brussels, Belgium

Now that I’ve moved back to my home country in Canada, there are several things I miss about living in Brussels. I came up with a list of 21 things. I stopped because I probably could have kept going for a while. The funny thing is that some of the items on this list were

By - Nicole Basaraba
Posted on April 20, 2012March 21, 2013
Posted in Culture, Lifestyle, Living in Brussels, Travel

European Cafe vs. Canadian Coffee

I am no expert on coffee, although I love it and drink quite a lot of it. Coming from Canada to Belgium, I knew that the coffee would be stronger, but I didn’t know just how much stronger. My intention of the following “analysis” is based on personal experience. I do not mean to offend

By - Nicole Basaraba
Posted on September 30, 2011
Posted in Lifestyle, Living in Brussels

Belgium Moments: Slagroom and Battle Royale

In the last week, I have some memorable – what I have deemed – Belgium moments because only these things can happen in Belgium. The first moment is my favorite. Its been an amazingly nice week of weather. That’s right, in Belgium you get nice weather (20+) in March and September, but wet greyness in

By - Nicole Basaraba
Posted on March 2, 2011
Posted in Living in Brussels

I like a French song!

I can’t believe it myself. Maybe I am starting to adapt to the frenchiness of Brussels…In addition to starting to take French class again, I found myself singing or I should say humming to myself a French song. Humming because I don’t really know what the words are, but I do know that there is