What to See and Do in Slovenia
Many people have never heard of Slovenia (for many North Americans the only Slovenian they may be familiar with is hockey player Anze Kopitar). This country may be small, but it is the only …
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Austria Travel Guide
Austria Travel Guide: Where to Go and What to See Most people associate Austria with skiing, Mozart, schnitzel, strudel, and images of Julie Andrews twirling around to a backdrop of mountains and …
Views from a Plane Window
Views from a Plane Window I’ve always been a bit of a plane geek and one of my favorite things is seeing the world go by from a plane window. So I decided to do a post dedicated to views from …
Why you should visit Oaxaca (but what you should know…)
Why you should visit Oaxaca I had a hard time writing this post on Oaxaca, maybe because I have contradictory feelings about the city that I still haven’t resolved in my mind. On one hand I love the …
Why you HAVE to visit Monte Alban, Mexico
Why you HAVE to visit Monte Alban Monte Alban is one of the top 5 archeological sites in Mexico (the other 4 are Teotihuacan, Palenque, Chichen Itza, and Uxmal). But Monte Alban is special because of …
Turkey Travel Guide: Where to Go and What to Do
Straddling two continents Turkey is, as is oft repeated, a place full of contradictions. You will not find anywhere else in the world that blends these two cultures together so effortlessly. You …
Top 10 lists according to AeroMexico
Top 10 lists according to AeroMexico Inflight magazines are usually full of bland, commercial content. I rarely look at them except to study the maps and plane/airport information in the back …
A Local’s Travel Guide to Italy
A Local’s Travel Guide to Italy (including places you’ve never heard of). Italy is the country that enjoys the greatest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the world: in …
My 2 years as a child Expat in Zambia
My 2 years as a child Expat in Zambia I was 8 years old when we moved to Africa. For a kid born and raised in rural Quebec, it was the most extreme change in environment imaginable. We had always been …