Snowflakes are falling, hot chocolate is pouring and twinkly lights wrap around every tree. The magic of the season has taken over the city that never sleeps. And while the markets of Europe are traditionally known to take the cake, I would argue that New York City does the Christmas season best in North America. …
Tag: Travel The World
Dining in Old Quebec
I always promise myself that I won’t take any vacation days off work in the summer because I’m saving them all for the sad and snowy days of Canada’s winter, however, O proposed a music festival outing to FEQ that I couldn’t refuse with what was about to be the best crew I would ever …
Hosteling 101
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 …
The Colors of Cartagena
Our taxi wound through the colorful cobblestone streets of Cartagena, carefully navigating the one-ways to our hostel in the middle of the old town. O and I had spent the night prior sitting on the rooftop of our hostel in Bogotá, enjoying the company of a new friend and now the exhaustion was setting in. …
Last Year in Havana…
As the plane descended into Jose Marti International airport I could feel the butterflies in my stomach going ballistic. It was early March and O and I had just left behind copious amounts of snow in Toronto for a seriously last minute and vital escape to a tropical paradise. We spun the proverbial globe and …