Welcome to my declassified hostel survival guide. As you may have gathered from my past adventures, O is in charge of flights and I book the hostels as the plane pushes back from the gate so I tend to be pretty pressed for time as I make my decision. The thing about picking a hostel …
Tag: Hostel Life
Paradise found in Puerto Vallarta
Have you ever been so in love with a place that when it was time to go, you felt like you were leaving your home? Like you were leaving behind the love of your life? I’ve had that feeling three times in my life. The first was leaving Naples, where I grew up and all …
My Love Affair With Freehand Los Angeles
As per my annual Family Day long weekend tradition (which I started last year), I took off somewhere warmer than my current Toronto residence. You know, change of latitude for a change of attitude or what not. I dipped to LA to spend 60 amazing hours covering as much ground as possible. On the second …
Paris Through Rosé Colored Glasses
Last long weekend (which I further extended), I decided that Paris was a good idea and so I got on a new budget airline and shipped myself off to the land of bread and cheese. I spent the next 4.5 glorious days popping into every boulangerie, pâtisserie and fromagerie in sight and spent full afternoons …
My Love Affair with Freehand New York
As I mentioned in an earlier post with almost the exact same title, due to my ridiculous obsession with Freehand Miami, I decided to check out the (relatively) newly opened Freehand New York this summer. It’s not exactly a hostel like the rest of the Freehand collection, but they do offer bunk bed rooms that …