Dropping Friends at the Syrian Border
A beautiful followsummer memory! Sunday, May 23rd, 2004: Sanliurfa to Istanbul, Turkey N 40 ° E 029 ° We leave Sanliurfa about 9 a.m. – this will be a long day on buses for Greg and me. The first part, which takes 4 ½ hours...
Évian les Bains: Perfect in Any Season
The car rounds a sharp corner and our driver, Laurence pulls over and leaves the car running. ‘Usually, at this point, I stop and show you the beautiful view of the lake and the mountains beyond’, she says, a slight...
followsummer Travel News
TravelPulse Canada What Will Travel Look Like in 2030? We are living in an unprecedented time of growth in travel. The global travel industry is expected to top almost $3 trillion sales by 2024, according to Euromonitor’s latest...
Spend Christmas in Paris
Ahhh. Une Christmas vacation à Paris is sheer bliss. No crowds, no line ups; just the pure joy of living as Parisians do. Watching as they go about their Christmas and daily shopping, while an ex-pat, student or secretive tourist...
Driving to a Pure Michigan Thanksgiving
We pack the car with some late November woollies, winter jackets, boots and lots of reading material and head west along the 401 to the Sarnia/Port Huron Bluewater Bridge border crossing, with a final road trip destination in...
Bali: Exploring the Island’s Luxury Side
A followsummer collaborative article Taking a trip to Indonesia wouldn’t be complete without heading to the breathtaking island of Bali. The crystal clear waters of the Bali Sea teamed with the mountainous ranges all at your...
The Tourist Trail of Don Quijote. Keep Left
From the followsummer archives. Spain, September 2004 Madrid to Cordoba: 396 kilometres It is nearly 11 when we check out of our hotel and find the M506 that will direct us to the A4 south to Córdoba, Espana. We have to re-check...
Gay Men Travelling in a Group: Some Do’s and Don’ts
On an organized group tour of Morocco we began our first-night group introductions in a hotel bar in Casablanca, (coincidently drinking Casablanca beer) with the thirteen gay men who were listening to our two-week Moroccan...
Seven Yummy Street Food Choices in London
Finding food can be quite daunting in London: so many options, so many locations, so many choices. And trying to sift your way through the enormous gastronomic foodie choices in one of the largest cities in the world, unaided and...
28 Pictures to Make You Return to Nova Scotia
Nestled between South Mountain and the Bay of Fundy lies the fertile Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia’s farming center and we have 10 days of touring the Annapolis Basin planned including some family time, some great meals and...
A Long Weekend in New York: What to Do?
from the followsummer archives: November 2016 A long weekend in New York. The city was still buzzing and somewhat in shock from the recent dual uptown and downtown Blue and Red party sharing of election night acceptance and...
Prague: A City of Music and History
Prague is completely and absolutely full of tourists of every stripe- German, Italian, Japanese, English, and American. The entire old city of Praha – which is made up of 5 historic precincts, the Old Town, the New Town (about...
Ferry Ride to Finland: Homesick for Canada
The alarm goes early – 5:30. For a change, it wakes me. The coffee is ready-to-go, and although I am not interested in food, I have my cereal with yogurt and a banana. At 6:00, I make sure Greg is awake, and by 6:30 we have...
Happy to Be in Helsinki, Finlandia Again!
I am so happy to be in Finland again! I traveled here in 2000 with my mother, and we visited southern Finland before we went on to St. Petersburg. I was impressed with Finland – beautiful, clean, birch and pine-covered land with...
Wonderful, Wonderful Rainy Copenhagen!
Still rainy and cool. Big, flat, low-hanging grey-hued clouds continue to dominate the Köpenham sky. Everyone, it seems, is complaining about the lack of warm dry weather both in Europe and in Canada. It is even making the local...
followsummer Travel News
skift Travel’s Moment of Clarity: Sober Tourism Is a Real Business From rooftop bars to pub crawls, pool-side happy hours to club nights, alcohol tends to play an outsized role in travel, especially for young people. For the...
Skip the Mexican Beach and Hike the Mountains
We stopped to listen to our guide tell us about the route we were hiking on, the Camino Real to Oaxaca, Mexico. Then he said: “We’ll move on now but let’s stay quiet for the next 20 minutes and enjoy nature.” That was the most...
The Viking Ships of Oslo
We start our first morning in Oslo Norway by taking the ferry to the suburb of Bygdøy, full of beautiful homes and museums. As befits a maritime nation, 4 of the 5 museums across the water are concerned with ships – including the...
521 Kilometres of Cloud and Fjord
Ok, I get my big, looming, cloud-enshrouded just-as-good-as New Zealand fjords on this trip. We check out of our hotel quite early (for us) and are on the road by 9:30, foregoing the fast route and taking the scenic road from...
Arriving on the Normandy Beaches
On June 6, 1944, Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy to open the way to Germany from the West. Victory in the Normandy campaign would come at a terrible cost. The Canadians suffered the most casualties of any division...