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Escape the crowds and experience Ontario’s backcountry at its quietest. Frontenac Provincial Park, just 40 km north of Kingston, offers peaceful lakes, scenic hiking trails, and canoe routes where you can truly enjoy nature – loons, whip-poor-wills, turtles, and more. In May, John and I spent a week canoeing and hiking through its chain of …
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You know I love old libraries. But how about bookshops? Amongst some truly gorgeous ones I have seen, El Ateneo Grand Splendid is in a class of its own. Wandering around in Buenos Aires a January day two years ago, I was not expecting a bookshop to stop me in my tracks, but that is …
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Wander With Wonder – Discovering Wow Moments Around the World or Across the Street Istanbul for first-timers made easy—learn when to go, what to see, and how to navigate this unforgettable city. Planning your first trip to Istanbul can feel wonderfully overwhelming. It’s a city of 15 million souls, a living museum spanning two continents, …
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When I decided to visit Taiwan, a lot of people asked me – why Taiwan? Honestly, I picked it because I’ve already checked off most other countries on my Southeast Asia list, and that region is hands down my favourite part of the world to explore. I wanted to go back, and Taiwan – a …
Nagorno-Karabakh: what images or memories does that name conjure up for you? Perhaps news from the 1990s, stories of war and upheaval, and again in the 2020s, when conflict flared once more? To me, it always evoked a strange combination of fear and fascination; a name that carried both a whisper of peril and the …
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