Dr. Nicole Basaraba

Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities, TCD

Visiting the “Nether lands” of Amsterdam

First of all, I didn’t visit Amsterdam to hit the coffeeshops (drug houses) or the redlight district (harlot houses), which could be called the "nether lands" or "nether regions" of Amsterdam. In fact I only visited the red-light district during daylight hours and I was quick to leave the area, which was full of weird men looking around. Its quite shocking...

The Guessing Game

Well, firstly I let me tell you that in December 2009 I moved from my small hometown in Canada after I graduated university to a capital city in Europe. So where am I writing from you ask? Can you guess? Let me start by giving you some hints. I can tell you that, this European