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Crisscrossing Switzerland by rail on a ten-day Spring excursion, my husband Tom and I discover St. Gallen, an elegant medieval town in a high northeastern alpine valley just an hour out of Zurich. The city’s stunning Abbey cathedral and library complex are known...
Let the soft winds of the Adriatic Sea blow through your hair aboard a ferry from Venice to Burano. Feel the stress of the modern world fade away as you sail towards the tranquil fishing village perpetually caught in the...
Enter from the back alley; it’s the door covered in yellow graffiti. These are probably the last words you’d expect to hear from someone giving you directions to a wine club in Toronto. But they will get you to where...
Finally a proper afternoon tea has emerged in Toronto that doesn’t have an outrageous price attached. You’ll have to venture out to the Beaches in the east end to find it, but it is well worth the trip. It’s time...
From the quaint port city of Vladivostok to the teeming sprawl of Moscow, the Trans-Siberian Railway is a truly remarkable route unlike any other in the world. An Odyssian route Covering the better part of 10,000 kilometres, across two continents, the...
In my teenage years, my family would take trips to Toronto’s Little Malta—more commonly known as the Junction—to visit family and eat pastizzi at the Malta Bake Shop. As I got older and more geographically savvy, I realized how improbable...
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