12th August 2016 / Destinations, Europe, Iceland / 0 comments

Iceland is a young country in geological terms, only 20 million years old. The land is constantly changing. Volcano eruptions create lava fields. Bays and fjords fill up with ash. Islands are joined to the […]

9th August 2016 / Destinations, Europe, Sweden / 4 comments

No doubt you’ve heard about the Nobel prize, but did you know that Alfred Nobel was a Swede and that the Nobel prizes (with the exception of the Peace prize) are awarded in Stockholm every […]

2nd August 2016 / Destinations, Europe, Sweden / 2 comments

I knew little about Sweden when I arrived in the country last month. I imagined it would be pretty similar to Canada, a nordic first world country with good infrastructure and mostly middle-class people. And […]

29th July 2016 / Destinations, Europe, Sweden / 0 comments

Art lovers will love Stockholm! For a city its size, Stockholm is surprisingly well endowed with museums, and especially art museums.  Most visitors flock to the famous Vasa Museum of course, but if you love art, […]

26th July 2016 / Denmark, Destinations, Europe / 0 comments

Did you know that the castle where Shakespeare’s play Hamlet takes place really exists? Elsinore Castle is actually Kronborg Castle, located in the small town of Helsingør (known as Elsinore in English), a short train ride north […]

7th July 2016 / Destinations, Europe, Iceland / 2 comments

The morning I landed at Keflavic Airport in Iceland, I wondered what had possessed me to leave behind beautiful warm summer weather in Montreal to end up in pouring rain and 9C temperature barely five […]

21st June 2016 / Destinations, North America, United States / 2 comments

Why visit Philadelphia you ask? Does it have architecture and history? Art and culture? Does it have beer? Well, all of the above as it turns out, and much more. Philadelphia is slightly over one […]