After the obligatory visits to The Louvre, Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower, take a step away from the hoards of people. Keep stepping all the way back to the 20th arrondissement (district), where conventional Paris becomes funktified into unknown…
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After arriving in Halifax on the overnight train from Montréal, I rolled my luggage to the nearest hotel, the Westin Nova Scotian, attached to the VIA Rail station. The hotel itself isn’t anything spectacular: clean, modern, friendly, but not particularly “Nova…
I closed the door to my miniscule bedroom – with a window over the sound of the creek below – and fell asleep like I was in the womb. I woke up after 8:30 am, the perfect sleep in for…
I spend a lot of time in hotel rooms. It’s a breath of fresh air, then, when I check into a hotel that feels more like an apartment! That was the case when I arrived at the Thon Hotel Panorama…
The best Mother’s Day ideas are always difficult: How do you show your appreciation to the woman who housed you in her womb, took care of you before you could talk, put up with your foolish teenaged behaviour, and told…
Every time I travel to Paris, France, I fall more deeply in love with the city. The problem? Hotels in Paris are not cheap! I did find two reasonable ones on my last trip, though, that are, not only well-priced…
