What’s Canada like in 2025?
What’s Canada like in 2025? I had heard the grumblings from Canadians visited us in Spain. They complain about the cost and availability (or lack of) of housing in Canada, about healthcare and the …
Planning and Resources for Slow Travel
Planning and Resources for Slow Travel. Slow travel is the most sustainable way to travel long term. It allows you to travel the world affordably (often more affordably than you did back home), more …
When Iberia won’t pay your compensation claim (UPDATED)
When Iberia won’t pay your compensation claim Updated November 2025. It’s been a year since the incidence happened and I’m still chasing Iberia, pestering the AESA (the Spanish Aviation …
How to spend 2 days in Quebec City
How to spend 2 days in Quebec city. We spent 2 months in Quebec City this summer. It was a return to the area where I was born (right across the river in Levis) and where I spent the first 8 years of …
A Review of our Level 8 Luggage
A Review of our Level 8 Luggage. We’ve really changed the way we’ve travelled over the last 10 years. When we first started travelling full-time, we had huge backpacks (the ones outdoorsmen use) and …
A Local’s guide to Montreal
A Local’s guide to Montreal. I’m always blogging about exotic foreign places and it hit me that I’ve never posted photos or written anything about the city where I lived for 25 years. But it …
Celebrating Two Lives
Celebrating Two Lives. Both my parents died this year, my mom in March, my dad in August. I’ve always said that this blog was first and foremost a place to record my memories and thoughts. That’s …
The Best Photo Locations in Quebec City
The Best Photo Locations in Quebec City. Quebec City is an incredibly photogenic city, blessed with an impressive geographic location and a quaint city center (made up of the lower and upper town). …
A “Do-it-Yourself” Photographic Walking Tour of San Miguel de Allende (Mexico)
Photographic Walking Tour of San Miguel de Allende. San Miguel de Allende is not only a UNESCO World Heritage site, it is one of the most photogenic places in Mexico. It’s a place where you can spend …