When Steve’s travelling and I stay behind, my weeks go quickly because I’m working, but the weekends can be a challenge. That’s when we usually do couple stuff. This past week Steve was in Amsterdam, and I had a stay-behind [...]
Last month, I invited Tag Along Travel readers to ask me anything about travel, tagging along, or the blog. So, as we throw open the doors to 2020, here are my responses. I’m looking forward to another year of sharing [...]
I knew next to nothing about Edinburgh before we decided to add a week’s stay there following Steve’s business travel in London. All it took was our ten-minute walk from the train station to our Airbnb in the Old Town [...]
The Samhuinn Fire Festival in Edinburgh is a re-creation of the ancient Celtic festival that marked the end of a bountiful summer and the beginning of the cold, dark winter. Taking place on October 31 at the top of the [...]
If you regularly travel for work, does it feel like a grand opportunity to enjoy new experiences or an endless burden of delayed flights, long hours, and generic hotel rooms? Some argue that how you answer likely has to do [...]
The air is crisp, the flip-flops are tucked away, and the days are getting shorter. Summer in Canada is slipping behind the leafy groundcover and fall is getting underway. The change of seasons can be a wistful time, but one [...]
When you are visiting a city for a short time, it’s tempting to pack every second with activity, which results in exhaustion. We recently spent 48-hours in Toronto, and although we resisted the urge to “see it all” we still [...]
One of the finest pleasures of travel is the immersion in a place and culture that is novel to the visitor. I always travel with an eye out for what is distinct about the destination I am visiting, which spawned [...]
Our ideal vacation these days usually involves two wheels. There is something especially intimate about seeing a country’s landscape from the seat of a bicycle. We recently took a self-guided cycling tour in the Andalucía region of Spain from Sevilla [...]