Travel Blog
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Gili islands are three very (seriously, very) small islands east of Bali, just off the coast of Lombok. There are no cars here, just bikes and horse-drawn wagons. Despite being on this Bali adventure for only eleven days, we decided to take an excursion to Gili Trawangan, the biggest of the three islands. (I …
Everyone is visiting Bali these days so O and I decided to give it a go. Wow. It really is paradise. We visited in June which is their winter, just after the rainy season but just before the start of high season (July – August). It rained for a couple of the 11 days we …