Your favourite travel blog!
Share your tales of travel in Canada with friends and family.
Share your tales of travel in Canada with friends and family.
Yes, I'm letting my inner travel guide make all my decisions. Goodbye to my overscheduled life, at least for a few days. The part of me that's Irish loves this....it feels good knowing that I have no idea... read more...
Kingston is amazing...a taxi ride down Princess St. and I've gone back in time. If it were Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday, I'd head to Market Square for the farmer's market, the oldest one in Ontario. Market... read more...
Leaving From Earth to Spirit, I navigate through a maze of stone walkways, in search of Chez Piggy. Women's voices raise, laughter echoes from some darkened corner. If I listen, I can almost hear the clip-clop... read more...
All right, last night was a dream...I stayed at the Holiday Inn right on the waterfront. Lake Ontario filled my window...this morning I stepped outside on a terrace and just watched seagulls and cruise... read more...
Underground Montreal...made for bonechilling winters but perfect for the train traveler. Cause you step off the train at Central Station, walk past the charming coffeeshops and up the escalator and you're... read more...
So many Torontonians have no idea what awaits them in Montreal...an incredibly vibrant culture less than five hours away by train. Leave the car at home. You can walk from the train station anywhere downtown... read more...
Montréal is a city of neighbourhoods. Unforgettable neighbourhoods...immortalized by some of Canada's greatest writers. I can't walk down rue St.Urbain, for instance, without imagining Mordecai Richler... read more...
My head is swimming with history from the moment I step out of the Place d'Armes metro station. Vieux Montréal is alive with the past...ornate stone architecture, cobblestoned streets...I wander through... read more...
Traveling by intuition has its moments...especially when it comes to deciding where to travel to next.
How can I leave la belle province? I look skyward, at the stone curlicues on an 19th century building... read more...
One pain au chocolat is not going to do the job. This is serious mulling. I stare forlornly at the few buttery flakes left on my plate. I can and I will order another.
Vancouver is a few days away but so... read more...
You'll never guess where I've decided to go. Okay, maybe you will.But before I reveal my destination, I should let you know that I really, really analyzed things...admittedly not the most intuitive approach... read more...
Less than two hours by train from Montreal...and I'm in Ottawa. Haven't been here for seven years, so things have changed. Still a great place to walk, right out of the VIA Rail station. No need for a... read more...
I've been thinking about that....especially after riding the rails to Kingston, Montreal, Ottawa, and a number of other places in my imagination. There is something about train travel that is uniquely... read more...
