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A reader wrote a comment worth addressing. They said: “Sorry if this is rude but it seems to me you don’t like anywhere you ARE but dream of how it’s going to be great in the NEXT place. It’s [...]

I sat on many blog posts this past year, knowing a new blog theme would come, and this is one of those — the unexpected perks of off-season travel. I wrote this in early December, [...]

It’s midnight in Porto and I’ve just finished watching Midnight In Paris, in which “screenwriter” Owen Wilson finds himself in Paris with his fiancée and somehow time-travels back to 1920s Paris [...]

I’m on the edge of the sketchy part of town, where tourists and the low-income folks intersect, reminding me of Gastown back home in Vancouver. A short bossy man with thick-framed glasses and a [...]

It’s my last day in Lisbon and the prospect of packing for Porto begins tonight. For some reason I’ve woken today with a weather migraine and healthy dose of regret. I feel like I somehow [...]

Because I’m on a budget, I keep resorting to TripAdvisor for reviews. Sometimes they’re right, sometimes they’re wrong. The trouble is, so many travellers come with North America locked in their [...]

It’s the third morning of my Portugal leg of my adventure. Up the hill, someone is burning waste from land-clearing arundo donax, an invasive reed that’s a cross between corn and bamboo, which [...]

My money’s down and my mind’s made up. Deciding on where to go has been arduous because I want to See All The Places as I travel the world for five years. But my travels are completely different [...]