Travel

My Favorite City in the World [Competition]

Accor Hotels is having a contest called Tale of 3 Cities I was browsing Packing My Suitcase yesterday when I came across this contest. You can win a 9-day all-expenses paid (except the flight to the starting city, London) trip from London to Paris to Amsterdam. And, most importantly, a GoPro. All you have to […]

Expat Interview: Paris with Clare Laming

Interview Series, Edition 4 For the fourth edition of the interview series, we got in touch with Clare Laming of Monarch Butterfly Voyager. She is an Irish blogger living in Paris, France. Previously, we have interviewed tattoo artist and world-traveler Amber Harris, Adrian Ann of Adrian’s Travel Tales, and Jenn Turnbull-Houde of Two Weeks in […]

How Iceland’s Only Circus is Changing Gender Roles

All photos from Sirkus Islands Facebook Page. Used with permission. Skip to the Important part Random Pub on a corner Reykjavik, Iceland Saturday, 13 December 2014 15:00 Greenwich Mean Time Looking For Entertainment Maria and I have followed our noses up and down the street, looking for the source of “that Icelandic hotdog smell“. Eventually, […]

Short Break in Vaison-la-Romaine Pt 2

So often sleeping in a hotel bed is uncomfortable, but not at Hotel Burrhus: I have no back-ache this morning, and I rise with energy. At the reception, Laurence, the owner, greets me and asks if I would like coffee or tea. She invites me to sit on the deck and enjoy the weather. Outside, the square is full of voices: merchants hawking their wares, tourists haggling with them. “It’s the Tuesday market tomorrow,” Anouchka had told me, eyes glittering. “It’s village-wide. You’ll like it.” From the terrace, I have a bird’s eye view of the canvas roofs over each stall.

Why do I travel?

Do I like to travel? For anyone who knows me, this may seem like a “duh” question. I have spent the last month and a half in four different countries and I’m not heading home for another week. But somebody asked me again the other day: Do you like to travel? And I had to […]

My Montreal Bucket List

Okay, so you may or may not know that I have been living in Montreal for a little under a year now. During my time here, I have gotten to experience a number of things: I have been ice-skating at Parc la Fontaine, I have been to the Biodome, the Insectarium, Parc Mont Royal (a […]