If you subscribe to the TagAlongTravel Highlights newsletter, you’ll be familiar with the feature “Deb Recommends.” Each month, I dispense some hard-earned piece of travel advice or a tip that I acquired while on the road. Not a subscriber? Stop [...]
There are lots of ways to travel: from cruising to camping, all-inclusive resorts to backpacking. Our travel style as somewhere between luxe and adventure. Most often we steer away from the “must-do” attractions at a destination. Steve’s work travel has [...]
It’s been about ten years since my spouse Steve started travelling for business. During that time, he went from travelling within North America four to five times a year to travelling the world every two to three weeks. Despite the [...]
At the end of every trip to a new city or country, I always reflect on what is different about that place from all the others I’ve visited. Sometimes it’s a cultural variation, sometimes it’s the physical geography. Other times [...]
Sharon and Jeff have shared a life and hectic travel schedules since 2008. When they met, they both travelled for work frequently and at times literally passed each other in the air either arriving or departing from their home province [...]
When visiting Halifax, Nova Scotia this June, we spotted a beautiful schooner in the harbour and discovered it was the legendary boat that appears on the Canadian dime. We had only a vague recollection of the story behind the Bluenose, [...]
Québec City is like no other urban centre in North America. With a distinct European flair and a well-preserved architectural history, visitors could easily mistake the streets for Paris. There are so many festivals and attractions that no matter what [...]
Our Island Expeditions Ultimate Adventure tour continued to live up to its title on its final few days. Adventure came in the form of experiencing Mayan culture and home cooking followed by roughing it in the Belizean rainforest along the [...]
“You’ll need to wear this during the whole flight, okay?” The flight attendant produced two red lanyards with attached tags that read: Unaccompanied Minor. I took mine and put it over my neck, it was long and hung to my [...]