Postcard from Morocco
“On the first part of the journey, I was looking at all the life…” Have you heard that song – A Horse With No Name? That’s how you feel after one week of wandering the Sahara desert in Morocco. The soft...
Favourite Family Reads Before Traveling to Paris
If you are planning a trip to Paris with kids in tow, enjoy these three entirely different takes on this new, favourite city.
Travel to Norway and Sweden With Two Books
Let’s leave Ontario’s frosty weather and go…to equally cold climates? This month, I am traveling to Norway and Sweden, taking a bit of a Scandinavia tour to countries that may be as cold as our own, but their beauty makes it...
The Detox Diaries: Day Three
Ow, Ow, Ow. I wake with a low grade thumping detox headache reminiscent of my cold-turkey attempt at stopping coffee a couple of years ago. I’m not sure that it isn’t from last night’s strange absence of my old friend, ‘Two...
How’s My Head and How’s My Heart?
Postscript: I sit here, typing away at my computer, some four years after my initial diagnosis of depression. That December 2015 was perhaps one of the most painful and difficult times I have ever experienced, lived through,...
Extended Travel Burnout
I was surfing the web recently and a 2014 Travel + Leisure article 15 Signs You May Have Travel Burnout caught my eye and made me ponder my own extended travel and the potential for burnout and in particular, our 2004 trip around...
The Detox Diaries: Day Two
Ok: It’s a workday. Let’s see how this goes. Gurgling stomach continues: I run to the bathroom two hours before my usual rising time. The Wild Rose Herbal laxative (the second set of three bitter pills) is working. I am...
Dreaming of Monaco
Nice is nice but location Monaco beckons. We met Claudia and her husband Marco when we were in Mykonos and they have asked us to lunch aboard their yacht which happens to be anchored in Monaco. This is a complete and total...
An Australian Driving Primer: “Tired Drivers Die!”
I think you can tell a lot about a country by driving its roads. Based on the 1600 kilometers we’ve covered, driving from Cairns to Coolum, and without an Australian drivers license, I would say that Australians are...
The Detox Diaries: Day One
With all good intentions and a cocky swagger, I stumble out of my red wine, started with two martinis, Nigella Lawson’s Guinness Chocolate Cake induced hangover from last evening’s “ Last Hurrah Before Detox ” birthday...