3 Books to Inspire Travel to Toronto
Whether you are a Torontonian, live close by or are traveling to the city from out of province or country, these three books will inspire you to see Toronto as more than Casa Loma, Black Creek Pioneer Village, and the CN Tower....
followsummer’s Top Global Restaurant Picks
We take everything with us when we travel – our clothes, our money, and especially our appetites. Navigating restaurants when abroad can be an expensive thrill at best and downright cheap and frightening at worst. Followsummer...
10 Places You Should Really Visit This Summer
There are a ton of choices available to you when considering where to spend your summer vacation dollars. And as Canadians continue to struggle with a weakened dollar and creeping fuel prices, should we consider packing up the...
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...
A New Years Eve Morning Marriage!
On December 31, 2003 there was a Marriage. Ours, in fact. The ceremony, on New Years Eve morning, was an intimate family gathering at Toronto City Hall Marriage Chambers. Following the ceremony, John’s mother toasted the happy...
Family Weekend Fun in Toronto
Look up. Wayyy up. Catch the billowing clouds piercing the empty Saturday skyscrapers of the Southcore Financial Center, where more than 20,000 office employees and 10,000 residents live, work and play, making Southcore Financial...
Extend Your Summer with These Dundurn Books.
It doesn’t matter how long removed I am from returning to school, when Labour Day comes, in my mind, it signals summer is over. And I am never ready for it. This month I am inspired to stay in Canada and visit Toronto and...
An Athenian Sunday Wander on The Acropolis
Sunday in Athens. Today is the day, it seems when all Athenians take to the street to shop, walk, chat, gossip or sit in a café and drink coffee. Everyone is out doing something. We sleep in a little after our late night and...
followsummer’s Top 7 Toronto Restaurants
Toronto is, without a doubt, the most diverse of cities when it comes to restaurant choices. Managing our city’s plethora of restaurants and neighborhoods can be a foodie thrill at best and downright cheap and frightening...
In Toronto: Explore West Queen West!
I jump on the clanging 501 Queen West streetcar and join the worker-bees buried in their phones, the mothers with their over-sized strollers and the noisy, pre-drinking bar hoppers and hipsters, all clamoring for a red seat on...
DaiLo: Chef Nick Liu’s #sickasianfood
We ran into Chef Nick Liu a couple of nights ago at trendy DINE and Destinations launch party and got us thinking of our first great evening savouring Chef Liu’s fabulous ‘New Asian Cuisine’ appropriately hashtagged,...
Winners Announced in our Win 1 of 3 Contest!
We started last Monday, October 17th and our pizza cravings lasted until Friday, October 21st. We couldn’t WAIT to give our followsummer pizza lovers a chance to win 1 of 3 free pizzas to be enjoyed at one of...
Chef Robbie Hojilla Resurfaces at The Harbord Room
We were greatly relieved to stumble upon Chef Robbie Hojilla, late of the now-defunct Hudson Kitchen and share his seasonal, ‘root to leaf’ inspirational food in the hopping, beigey, rosey sun-dappled Monday evening Harbord Room....
In the City: Art Metropole 40th-Anniversary Party: 40 Years, 40 Yeahs!
The big circular white clock in the landmark Great Hall of historic Union Station signalled it’s neon-coloured, white-hot arrivals and departures last Thursday evening welcoming over 300 members of Toronto’s Arty crème de...
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...
A Feasting Week in Palm Springs, California
If you are acquainted with any budding mid-century Desert Modernism Architectural Enthusiasts or Retro Hipster Rat Pack followers than chances are you have heard about the many charms of Palm Springs. Rated one of Frommers...
A Melbourne, Australia Primer
Well, well, well. Melbourne is an entirely different city from Adelaide, and that is evident firstly in its size. Melbourne has over 3.5 million people in it and reminds us of Toronto. The water, the beach proximity and their...
The Campervan Life: Our Final Big Day of Driving
Today is our big final day of driving and I will admit that I am ready to get out of this damn campervan. We are up relatively early as is everyone around us. It is about 7:30 and John has been up puttering for about an hour. I...
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...
A Soaking Wet Mardi Gras Parade
We wake to threatening skies. Today is the Mardi Gras Parade. Graham is having printer problems, so we go over to his place to try to resolve them for him (success!) and then, Eric having arrived, we head to a local café for...