When things don’t go as planned
Travel is stressful, let’s admit it. Especially the days just before departure when you are frantically getting ready and checking things off an endless ”to do” list. The last thing you need is not knowing […]
Archive for category: The art of travel
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Are we experiencing a social travel revolution?
The travel landscape is changing. You don’t need to rely on big hotels, travel agents and expensive guided tours to organize your trips anymore. You can stay in somebody’s spare room booked through an internet […]
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7 problematic travel situations and what you can do
You’re sitting in a taxi in Bangkok and realize the driver can’t understand where you want to go. You’re being followed by begging kids in Cusco. You’ve just used the toilet in your beachfront cabana […]
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Am I a lazy traveller?
After four months on the road, I’m finally back home, jet-lagged and nursing a cold. (Sniff.) It’s only when my head finally hits my own pillow, after 30 hours of shuffling between planes and airports, […]
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Departure Day
Many travel bloggers out there are on a perpetual trip. You may have noticed that I’m not. I have a permanent home base in Toronto (Canada) and I travel from there. Canada is a fine […]
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Planning a trip 20 years ago
When I was just starting to travel, 20 years ago, planning a trip looked nothing like it does now. There was no world wide web, no high speed internet, no digital cameras, and no cell […]
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You call yourself a backpacker?
For the longest time I fancied myself a backpacker. It’s true that I was, and still am, travelling with a backpack. Well, these days it’s more like a large knapsack, small enough to satisfy carry-on […]
