Happy Anniversary

Happy Anniversary

One year ago today, at about 8pm, I stepped aboard an Emirates flight to Dubai, en route to England and I have no idea what else. All I had was a few hundred English pounds, 17kg’s of luggage and a job waiting in a pub…. Well, maybe waiting, needed to crack the...
Skipping Through The Tulips

Skipping Through The Tulips

One thing you discover quite fast about Amsterdam is that, like most major cities, it is an island with an identity of its own, quite different from the rest of the country. London is like this, as is New York and even Johannesburg. Since moving to Amsterdam I am, in...

The Poem-o-Matic

Humanities Day at the University of Amsterdam As part of Humanities Day at the University of Amsterdam, The Amsterdam Writers Guild (AWG) came up with the idea of a Poem-o-Matic as a way of show-casing the Guild’s activities.Basically the idea is this: Two poets sit...