Travel articles by country

Wandering Carol – A Luxury Travel Blog takes you where you want to go. This page full of travel articles is a great resource to find longer informative articles, narratives and travel reviews from around the globe. They’re some of the best articles I’ve written over the years, mainly for the travel section of the Toronto Star newspaper, Canada’s biggest circulation newspaper.

Travel articles are a journal of my life

Full confession: a lot of my nomadic history over the last ten years lies on this page, featuring everything from stupid misadventures to my top travel experiences. Highlighting some of the best travel destinations around the globe, the travel articles below are organized by country, and offer guides on themed travel, helpful travel tips and travel topics that really interest me (whether or not they interest you is an entirely different matter, such as scandalous figures in history (Anne Boleyn! Oscar Wilde!), luxury spas, hot springs and weirdly mystical places.

Romancing the globe in Germany

To read any of the following travel articles just click on the links below:

Austria

• Vienna – The cult of Empress Sisi

Canada

• Brantford – Myths along the Nith River
• Travel to Montreal, City of Glass
• Montreal: The King’s Daughters and Old Montreal
• Tree therapy at Holtz Spa in Ottawa

China

• Outlet shopping in Hong Kong
• Seeking prosperity and buying jade in Hong Kong

Czech Republic

• Frantiskovy Lazne – Checking out a Czech spa town

Chile

• Things to do in the Atacama Desert

England

• Hip urbane Mayfair in London had a seedy start
• London and Hever Castle – Following the Boleyn Trail
• The Peak District – Bess of Hardwick
• Pilgrimage to Glastonbury

France

• Chartres – Finding my inner bad girl in the Cathedral of Chartres
• How to rent a villa in France affordably
• Oscar Wilde in Paris
• Tracing my parents’ honeymoon in the South of France

Germany

• Aachen – where great lovers and conquerers came to heal
• Baden-Baden – Germany’s most elegant spa town
• Brenner’s Park in Baden-Baden – one of the most luxurious spa hotels in the world
• Berchetesgaden Land – Salt therapy
• Spa trend alert – German spas are becoming more hip
• Lake Hintersee – A path to artistic inspiration
• Tabarz – Kneipp therapy in a former East German spa town

Hungary travel articles

• Budapest Baths– Bathing is a clean but confusing experience
• Budapest: Searching for Iggy Pop at the Sziget Festival
• Eger and the Valley of the Beautiful Women– The valley of the beautiful women

Honduras

• Copan – Wellness at the Mayan ruins

Italy travel articles

• Travel article – Art in Italy
• Montegrotto Terme
• Venice – Eternally Romantic

Peru

• The Amazon shaman

Slovakia

• Cryotherapy: the art of freezing your bits off in Poprad
• Slovakian spa report: the spa island of Piestany

Spain

• Northern Spain – The caves of Altamira

Switzerland

• Chocolate Chic in Zurich
• Swiss spas make a high tech wellness vacation

Thailand travel articles

• In the Treetops – Four Seasons Tented Camp Golden Triangle
• Koh Samui Six Senses Hideaway Samui review
• Touring Thailand on a bed of rice

Turkey travel articles

• Ancient Pamukkale hot springs
• Solo Istanbul