5 cities you should avoid
I would gladly return to the majority of the cities I’ve had the pleasure of visiting over my 22 years of international travels. However, the following five are not among them. Whether it’s because they’re […]
Archive for category: Plan
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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 […]
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Serendipity… or where is my bus?
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 […]
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Habla Ya Spanish School (Boquete, Panama)
You may have considered studying Spanish in Spain. Or perhaps you’ve heard of the Spanish learning mecca of Antigua, Guatemala. I’m going to suggest an alternative: Boquete, Panama. Cheaper than Spain, safer and less crowded […]
