Does the Romance of Travel still exist?
Does the Romance of Travel still exist? It’s the trip I’ll never forget. I was 21 years old, a university student in Montreal. My mother worked and lived in Lusaka, Zambia. That year she invited me to …
Group Tours vs Independent Travel. The Pros and Cons… and some thoughts.
Group Tours vs Independent Travel. Before our recent trip to Georgia and Armenia we’d always travelled independently. In Georgia and Armenia we tried something new: taking part in an 8 day intensive …
When People tell us that “we’re lucky” to Travel Full-time…
When People tell us that “we’re lucky” to Travel Full-time… It always makes me cringe. Maybe I could understand it if the person saying it was from a lesser-developed country. But the majority of …
Different reasons for revisiting Places. And on finding resolution
Different reasons for revisiting Places. There are different reasons why people want to revisit a place. Sometimes they just love a place. Sometimes they want to explore it in more detail or see it in …
Going from travelling full-time to having a base. Memories of the Good, the Bad and the Complicated.
Going from travelling full-time to having a base. It was 7 months ago that we left Split. We’ve been thinking about that a lot lately. For those new to the blog: we left Canada in 2014 to travel. One …
What is Slow Travel? And why it’s how we travel
What is Slow Travel? And why it’s how we travel We often get comments from people who don’t understand how we travel. “You were a month in Brno?! Why would you do that?” Slow travel means exactly …
Things that seem weird when you go to Europe
Things that seem weird when you go to Europe When we left Canada to travel full-time 4 years ago we didn’t think that most of our travels would be in Europe. It’s a continent we’ve fallen in love …
Tourism…and when the locals hate you
Tourism and when the locals hate you. Note: I wrote this post in 2017 and much of the focus is on Split (Croatia) where we lived at the time. Split was getting increasingly popular but the numbers …
Why you should travel solo
Why you should travel solo I’m in Sarajevo as I write this after spending the last week visiting my mother in Budapest. The plan had been to go back to Split but Lissette had said to me “why don’t you …