Enjoy Tremblant in All Seasons!
Looking for an easy, all-season escape where you can enjoy fine dining, a stay at a luxury hotel and of course exhilarating four-season activities including world-class skiing? Pack your rental car and enjoy the sunny ride up...
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...
Spa Scandinave: Indulge in Spa-ahhh.
My last visit to Mont Tremblant’s Spa Scandinave was in a mid-winter March, a glorious late winter sun, setting over a rushing Rivière Diable, her banks crusted with breaking sheets of ice. There was still snow on the...
The County Has Grown Up
Like the rural quaintness of the French River of Nova Scotia and the excitement of the Napa Valley of the 1980’s, Prince Edward County continues to captivate her visitors with a spirit and engagement that is exciting to...
A Dandelion and a Daisy: Les Jardins de Métis
Yesterday’s Sainte-Flavie arrival-greeting fog has burned away and our morning breaks sunny, warm and inviting. We grab an early breakfast in the Motel: butter-basted eggs ‘over easy’, some lovely crispy...
Visit Canada: The Ultimate Winter Wonderland
Coming from sunny Australia, I fully understand why some of you may dread the idea of traveling to this snow-laden kingdom in the middle of winter. You’re surely wondering if it’s way too cold for you to enjoy the sights, too...
Québec, THE Place Where You Can Let Go. For Real.
Experience pure, raw emotions while visiting Québec. Create an authentic story about this destination, featuring its spectacular landscape, creative culture and, above all, its welcoming people. That’s the type of experience that...
PHOTO: Sunset Ice over Trout Creek
The sun was just beginning to set over the historic Water Street Bridge, a seven-panel pin connected Pratt through truss bridge crossing Trout Creek and further beyond, the short cascade of Little Falls on the Thames river...
Three Books to Inspire Your Canada150 Travel
Canada is now 150 years old, but I will be celebrating the anniversary of Confederation all year long. In celebration of Canada150, Parks Canada has offered its Discovery Pass where you can have unlimited visits to its national...
#FSTravels NEWS Weekend Edition
All Hail the Weekend! We are experiencing some very different weather this weekend compared to last in the sunny British Virgin Islands and very different from next weekend where we will be enjoying the ski and aprés ski...
5 Unique Travel Experiences Right in Your Own Back Yard
Satisfy your wanderlust and discover unique experiences without traveling thousands of miles across the country. You may be struggling with the need to explore and have temporary barriers holding you back from world travel, but...
Winter in Ontario: Get Out and Play!
A followsummer post in collaboration with Expedia.ca Suffering a bit of post-holiday winter cabin fever? You may want to get out and enjoy what we ordinary winter-loving folks in Ontario love to do other than shoveling the white...
A Southwestern Ontario Road Trip
Growing up, my family did not pack me up with my two older brothers and Fuzzy, our cat, to embark on the typical family summer odyssey of drive, pee, sleep and keep-the-kids-from-killing-each-other-in-the-backseat road trip kind...
The Big Red Travel Tour Bus
A recent travel article by Plansify’s Mike Snowden, “Travel Like A Local” Is Broken. Here’s How We Fix It about ‘ having an authentic local experience that is the very definition of good travel’ generated an...
Old Sailors Superstitions: Never Start a Sea Voyage on a Friday.
‘Never Start a Sea Voyage on a Friday. It Will Have a Bad Ending’ An earring is said to give a sailor good eyesight and an old sea dog’s tattoo of a cross, an anchor, and a heart protects against dangers at sea...
Good Friends, Good Wine Weekend in Prince Edward County
East Lake is rough and choppy this morning, pulling low grey clouds across its early summer shores. So too are our heads from a rowdy, raucous, wine-filled Friday night as day two of our weekend in Prince Edward County begins....
Exploring Coastal Roads in Nova Scotia
The Princess of Acadia chugs her way into the grey, fog-swept Digby Gut and gracefully docks, allowing eager Camper Vanners, Japanese tourists and some locals to disembark and begin their vacations or to simply ‘head...
Some followsummer Thank You’s
Our followsummer website has proven to be even more popular than we had imagined or anticipated. This became apparent when we hadn’t posted for seven days last week. The followsummer roar of the crowd was fearsome! “Where...
The Very UN-Pub(ish) Saint John Ale House
When I began my research for our Saint John, New Brunswick overnight, pre-Princess of Acadia ferry ride to Digby, Nova Scotia, I readily admit my skepticism when the Saint John Tourism Rep sent me a list of potential dining...
Arriving in Quebec’s Picturesque Bas-Saint-Laurent
Our GPS is aptly named Jean-Francois after our two good Parisian friends John and Francois, is flashing 4:40 pm as the designated arrival time at the southern entrance to the Gaspé Penninsula in Quebec. Our destination is the...