Montreal is one of our favourite cities, but after a lapse in visits over recent years, both Ewan and I were a bit worried that the ‘je ne sais quoi’ charm we loved would be somehow missing when we planned a jaunt there over the May long weekend. Well, our worries were unfounded. Montreal proved…
Our mostly winging-it plan for Sri Lanka was to do a clockwise sweep of the lower half of the island nation. This plan fell through when we found that our option to head to the east coast from Kandy would involve several stops by bus or train, with no two people quoting us the same…
Antalya is Turkey’s ‘biggest international sea resort’ and a pretty good hub for many places in the country. We opted to stay there because we had the time and because it would provide a last chance to breath in the Mediterranean before moving on. We didn’t have any grand plans and so hadn’t built up…
We did a poor job of planning our timing and would have just one night in Sofia Bulgaria before having to rush on to Istanbul where we had an apartment booked. Thus, we wanted to make the most of our limited time. Two things threatened our enjoyment of the city. The first was the WORST…
We have a general plan and route for our time in Central Europe and found that training around would be the best bet (and most enjoyable) for transportation. Essentially we were headed from Prague and jumping from city to city before we hit Turkey. When we found that to get from Prague to Budapest we’d…
Santiago has been perfect. I would even hazard to say that it is my favourite city (so far) in South America. It’s not as though we’ve taken advantage of everything there is to see and do here. But the city just has a feel to it that we love. I am sure our love…
After the minor fiasco that was Carnaval, we decided it would be in our best interests to plan ahead for the Easter weekend to make sure we weren’t forced to move on and travel during the holiday. Given that we experienced everyone leaving the capital in Ecuador for Carnaval, we felt that it made sense…
The ‘ABC’s of Travel’ was apparently a hip blog post theme for travel blogs last year; here is our crack at it! A. Age you went on your first international trip: Em: 5 to the US, 18/19 to Germany Ew: not sure what age I first went to the US I’m guessing 5 or…
My job gives me the opportunity to work with volunteers all across Ontario and as such, I have the chance to travel to areas that I honestly would likely never go to otherwise. Last week I had an event in Chatham, a small southern Ontario city between Windsor and London; and due to the meeting…