In My Camera Bag – Packing Photo Equipment for Travel
I have a problem – my camera gear, when packing for travel, takes priority over everything else. I LOVE my camera gear. I only like my clothes…
I have a problem – my camera gear, when packing for travel, takes priority over everything else. I LOVE my camera gear. I only like my clothes…
2021 Update! This post was originally published in 2018, leaving out a more recent trip to the City of Light. I also hadn’t processed all…
Since many of us are stuck at home thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, I thought this would be a good time to follow up the…
Note: This post was originally published on Aug.15, 2017 but was updated on Oct. 25, 2020 with some new info and ideas. Thanks for reading!…
Inside the walls of the old city of Saint-Malo, you feel a bit like you’ve been taken back in time. The cobblestone streets, ramparts, and…
We stood out in the cold, a light drizzle falling in the early Spring air, waiting for the sun to set on Mont Saint-Michel. I…
Less than two weeks ago I stood in front of the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris (from here on in referred to as Notre Dame), enjoying the…
Chiang Mai has become one of my favourite cities to visit in Southeast Asia…but I didn’t always feel that way. The last time I was…
Feeding an elephant by hand is tricky business for a rookie. You’re not quite sure when to pull your hand away or how rough the…
The skies opened, thunder cracked, and the many faces of Bayon watched as we scurried into an alcove to avoid getting soaked to the skin.…
“Bloody hell, that tree is massive,” she said as we turned the corner and got our first look at the hulking silk cotton tree enveloping the ruins…
Who goes to Angkor Wat to see the sunrise and then misses the sunrise? Well, that would be me, but despite my poor sense of…
If you are visiting Chiang Mai, in northern Thailand, you will very likely find yourself taking a trip up to Doi Suthep. Wat Phra That…
Photo credit (above): CN Traveler Anthony Bourdain, host of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, died today. He was someone I admired, someone I enjoyed learning from,…
I love both travel and good television. Put them together and it’s a feast for those afflicted with the wanderlust gene. Last year I wrote about…
This is Part 2 of a two-part post on Phuket and Songkran. It’s a throwback post to the first time I visited Thailand, a trip…
As Songkran 2018 approaches, it seems an appropriate time to unleash my somewhat unexpected Phuket and Songkran posts. This is a throwback couple of posts…
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I’m off to Thailand again – this will be my 7th trip to the Land of Smiles (LoS), a country I adore, and a place…
Walking along Victoria’s Dallas Road, the memories flooded over me. I grew up on Vancouver Island, and although I left when I was fifteen, I’ve…
“Burgers?!” I can hear you asking, eyebrows arched at your screen, incredulity lacing your tone. “Why would you travel to France to write about burgers?” To…
Landing in Paris after four killer days in Iceland, we needed to switch our mindset. Gone were thoughts of icebergs, waterfalls, and overpriced bowls of…
ICELAND – PART 3 After five short hours of sleep we rolled out of bed and got up, ready to take on the glacial lagoon…
ICELAND – PART 2 Our first day in Iceland had been fairly epic, so when we awoke on day two we were fired up to…
ICELAND – PART 1 Our plane touched down in Reykjavik on time, 6:40 am, bouncing along the runway. A smooth landing in Reykjavik, I’m told,…
“Do you want to head out to Giverny? See Monet’s Gardens?” my friend Brendan asked. “It’s a great day trip from Paris.” We were sitting…
Note: Throughout 2017 I will feature different Canadian locations to celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday! This is the second post in my Canada 150 series –…
A friend recently said to me, “Why do you travel so much? Isn’t Toronto good enough for you?” Toronto is a phenomenal city, one with…
Canada is 150 years old this year, and celebrations are happening all over the country. On my own birthday this month I decided to kick…
I love it when the calendar turns over, despite the fact that I’ll continue to write “2016” down for the next 2-19 weeks until “2017”…
We got up early on our third day in Philadelphia so we would have time to check out the Reading Terminal Market before the day’s…
She was in her late twenties, American, attractive, but sad. I could see she had been crying, looking up at the sky, her eye liner…
Before this trip I had never been to Philadelphia. It’s a city I had heard about, read about, and seen in popular culture. I knew…
I like museums. I have a degree in history, and love art and photography, so museums are a good fit for me. Angela feels the…
We almost didn’t get to Montmartre. With eleven days in France, and a scheduled three day trip to Belgium and the Netherlands, it looked –…
My expectations for the Palace of Versailles were high – I’d heard the palace and the surrounding gardens were ridiculously ornate, full of interesting history, and…
When I told someone we were going to explore Brantford for a day trip out of the Toronto area last week, their response was a single…
The song says “don’t go chasing waterfalls” and in a drought, this is particularly good advice; advice I failed to heed, and as such we…
Toronto is an awesome city. It took me a while to come to this realization – coming from Canada, I have sometimes taken Toronto for granted.…
I recently sat down with global explorer, travel guru, and documentary producer Scott Wilson, of television’s Departures on my podcast, Step Up! with Paul de Burger…