12th August 2014 / Plan, The art of travel / 3 comments

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 […]

20th April 2014 / Plan, The art of travel / 1 comment

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 […]

30th March 2014 / Plan, The art of travel / 0 comments

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, […]

27th November 2013 / Plan, The art of travel / 0 comments

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 […]

24th November 2013 / Plan, The art of travel / 1 comment

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 […]

17th November 2013 / Plan, The art of travel / 2 comments

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 […]

10th November 2013 / Plan, The art of travel / 2 comments

In previous posts I talked about different kinds of travellers and ways of travelling: vacationers vs explorers, sightseeing vs experiencing. Today I want to talk about two different types of trips: planned ones and unplanned […]