If Demi Moore can lie down with a few leeches, what’s to stop you from trying a wellness therapy with a horse, a snake or even an imaginary dolphin? To read more about animal spa therapies, check out my latest article at Examiner.com.
Fun at the medi-clinic
How could I get food poisoning when I’m not even travelling? It seems like the ultimate irony … I’ve travelled through India, Thailand, Malaysia and the Caribbean but I always seem to get sick when I’m home. Of course it has nothing to do with the ALLEGEDLY uncooked chicken at the ALLEGEDLY Wholefoods deli that [...]
The beer miracle continues – first it makes you beautiful, then it wins you free travel to Mexico for life. Ole
First we learned why beer makes other people look hot. We also learned why beer spas, with their healing and skin-soothing properties, can make you look hot. Now it gets even better. Now you can be sizzlin’ sun-in-the-wintertime hot on a Mexican beach and once again, it’s thanks to beer. The Mexico Tourism Board, itravel2000 and [...]
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France
Renting a motorbike in France ie will I live through this day?
After a big fight with my boyfriend over the dangers of renting a motorbike (I didn’t want him to so he rented one anyway), I was so mad that I got on the bike. I’m serious. I didn’t know what else to do. We seemed to be at a stalemate and that’s the only thing [...]
France
Easyjet cancelled my flight- arghhhh!
I’m not knocking Paris, but when you’re all set to leave Paris and fly to Nice for your 6-day seaside holiday, it’s a major pain in the arse when, after an interminable and chaotic lineup, first the computers go down so you can’t check in, then a small group ahead of you turns into a [...]
Art
Paris in a heat wave … go to the Louvre
It would have been pretty embarrassing to go to Paris and not go to the Louvre, especially when our apartment is right across the street from the gargantuan museum. Our balcony overlooks the east end of it and we’ve spent a lot of time watching other people go in, come out, and mill around. Not [...]
Cevennes
Our last night in the Cevennes
It’s our last night at the chateau Bussas. Our French wilderness idyll is over. Every day since Wednesday Mark and I have had a running conversation of, “oh no, I can’t believe we have only 3/2/1 more days” or “where has the time/day/morning gone?” or “how can it be over already.” Then, last night, Mark [...]
Cevennes
Scary Roads of the Cévennes
Robert Louis Stevenson may have trod this perilous area with a donkey named Modestine in his short novel Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes written in 1879, but that was nothing compared to driving these routes with a GPS, a difficult finicky animal Mark and I have named, appropriately, Modestine. The Cévennes is a [...]
France
In the middle of nowhere
The good thing about renting this villa in France is that it was actually there when we showed up. After reading a trashy novel about a group of people who rented a villa in St Tropez only to find that it was an abandoned wreck I was mighty pleased when we turned up deep in [...]
Art
You’re never too old to embarrass your mother
Isn’t it supposed to be the other way around? Who doesn’t remember being mortified by their parents in high school? It’s the nature of growing up. (Or am I abnormal? Wait – don’t answer that.) But over the years things have changed – and now it’s my poor mother who can expect to be embarrassed [...]
Art
Dorothy Knowles (my mom) at the McMichael Collection
I’m not one to brag (okay, I kind of am) but I feel I simply must bring the world’s attention to the fact that my mother, Dorothy Knowles, is having an art show Dorothy Knowles Land Marks at the McMichael Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario this weekend. She’s flown in for the opening on Sunday along with [...]
Toronto
A weekend to travel
With the weather so sunny and delightful you’d think it would be a great weekend to be on the road. Unless you’re me and my boyfriend, Mark. Because then this weekend would have been a very very good time to stay OFF the road altogether. Let me tell you, gentle readers, about our sunny and delightful attempt [...]
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