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Gregory George
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Gregory George


World Traveler, Writer, and Blogger, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the followsummer.com travel blog.  A former Actor, current shower-singer, and non-hipster foodie. Loves his week-end house in St Marys, Ontario. Dad to Sophia, Ariel, and Hastings three of the best cats in the world.

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Extended Travel Weariness: from the followsummer archives


I stumbled upon this blog entry from August 2004  as I was going through some files here on followsummer. So interesting to note and remember our feelings of a year full of travel, and with only three and a half months left in...

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Turkey
Turkey

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...

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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...

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Travel America
Travel America

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...

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Bali
Bali

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...

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Spain
Spain

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...

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Travel

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...

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Food
Food

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...

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  • 29th Nov '19
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Travel Canada
Travel Canada

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...

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Travel America
Travel America

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...

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  • 26th Nov '19
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Czech Republic
Czech Republic

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...

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Finland
Finland

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...

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Finland
Finland

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...

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Denmark
Denmark

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...

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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...

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  • 19th Nov '19
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Travel
Travel

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...

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Norway
Norway

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...

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Norway
Norway

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...

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France
France

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...

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Croatia
Croatia

Scuba Diving in Croatia: Diver Beware!


Yesterday we agreed that today’s the day – we are going scuba diving. There are dive centers up and down the coast, and one is within walking distance of Stara Vila. We have been promising ourselves a diving day here in Croatia,...

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