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 […]
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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 […]
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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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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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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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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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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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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 […]
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