The best scenic driving routes around Miami
The best scenic driving routes around Miami (and where to rent a car). One of Miami’s pleasures is driving. There are some fantastically scenic routes both in the city itself and in the greater …
7 Unexpected Things to Do in Salt Lake City When You’re a Long-Term Traveller
7 Unexpected Things to Do in Salt Lake City When You’re a Long-Term Traveller. Three weeks into a stay in Salt Lake City, the laptop screen starts to blur with the same suggestions. Temple …
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 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 …
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). …
Why you have to Visit Old Montreal (a place I both Iove and hate)
Why you have to Visit Old Montreal. I have a complicated relationship with Old Montreal. There are parts of Old Montreal that feature the absolute worst of mass tourism: tacky stores and restaurants, …
A Walking tour of Montreal’s Plateau Mont-Royal
A Walking tour of Montreal’s Plateau Mont-Royal. Every guide to Montreal recommends a visit to the Plateau Mont-Royal. But I’ve yet to see anything detailed on what you should actually do …
What to Do in Ottawa (a Local’s Guide)
What to Do in Ottawa (a Local’s Guide). I spent my teenage years in Ottawa, living here a total of 8 years. It’s a city I know well. Coming back was a chance to revisit the places that make …
A goodbye to San Miguel de Allende
A goodbye to San Miguel de Allende. My mother lives in San Miguel de Allende and because of that I’ve visited the city almost every year over the last 10 years (the exception was 2020 because of …