Over the course of November that I haven’t updated Cafe Solo. I’ll potentially commence a blogging frenzy.

 Amsterdam is beautiful today. It’s sunny outside and the air has been crisp. It reminds me of high school autumn in Ontario. I have vivid, yet distant memories of walking around leafy downtown Cambridge after high school and having coffees by the river with all my poetry books and political manifestos and sketchpads falling out of my handmade Smiths satchel bag.

 The past few days I have been sick, with a bad, bad cold/flu. My friends Janneke and Marisa have been spoiling me with cups of passionfruit tea. If my five-year-0ld niece Zahra were here, she’d be rolling her eyes at my “fashion-fruit” obsession that has managed to cross the Channel.

 Yesterday I went to Rotterdam. I had to visit the Brasilian Consulate in order to sort out my visa for Brasil. I’m going to New York City in a week and then am off to Sao Paulo with my gang for a month of sun and debauchery. And Christmas in a village and New Years in Rio de Janeiro. I can hardly wait.

 I need sun, sun and more sun.

 In the new year … so many plans. So, so many plans. I’m looking forward to things.

 As a great man once said: “I love New York”.

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