The past few days have been really warm and even t-shirt weather at times. Even though the temperature has been hovering around 15c, it feels way warmer in the direct sun. Now the rain is coming back though and will probably stay until we leave here in a few days. Here are a few pics from my recent sunny days in gorgeous Split, Croatia! There were all taken with my phone and no filters necessary! An ancient church - I think it said it was from the 13th century. You have to cl

Osprey Farpoint 55 Travel Backpack This is the exact model of backpack that we have been using and it's gone on many trips now and has lasted several years. This backpack is a powerhouse and is seemingly indestructible. Best of all, it has a removable day pack, so I use the daypack as my carry on and check the bigger bag. The daypack has space for a laptop and everything else you might need during a flight and the main pack is easy to pack with a lockable, double zipper that

I am super excited to feature a new series on my blog: Interview with a Nomad, in which I ask five questions of people who identify as digital nomads (am I the only one that loathes that term)? These questions are: What is your website if you have one? Talk about your brand and what work you do online while travelling. Where are you from? How did you come to be travelling long term and what was that journey like? What is the biggest challenge you face when travelling long ter

Hey guys! Today, I thought I would bring you a list of some of my favourite veggie and vegan YouTubers. I have a lot of YouTube subscriptions and I don't always stick with all of them. But, these are all accounts I've been subscribed to for a longer period of time and I usually watch all of their videos. I have different reasons for liking each of them and they aren't all straight forward vegetarian or vegan recipe vlogs. Some feature travel, chatty stuff or just general heal

Today was a pretty dark and grey day but there was still beauty to be found in every corner...I love this skinny shop Outside a flower shop... I love this font... Pretty canal... Hearts on shutters... Ducks are great... Florist shops everywhere... And old, old building... Grey clouds... Coats of arms... This store is a chain here and in Belgium but I still love it... This is a great neighbourhood to walk around... Olliebollen is an awesome fried winter snack here, like a doug

Gliding past vehicles at a 100 km/h with humongous rocks on one side and 10000 foot deep valleys on the other, or sailing past cars at a 180 km/h on expressways with the sun setting and its golden rays making your face unusually beautiful: these are experiences that either sends your blood pumping, with adrenaline, kicking in to new heights or make you as serene as a priest. But, whatever the effect, they are worth the effort. When we talk about India, we don’t really care ab

We've had quite a bit of snow in recent weeks and it was pretty cold... But we still managed to get some longer walks in... Finally the weather improved and we walked almost 18km yesterday... This house has a traditional thatched roof... One of our favourite homes in the city. We imagine many years ago supplies being brought to the help via boat by those lower windows... After all that walking we needed to go back into town and have a coffee before the walk back home...this g

When we are travelling we often spend most of our days going on long walks to see what we can see...This guy came up to the fence to see me (and eat the fence...) And then ALLLL these guys started running towards the fence like SHEEP. I didn't have anything for them, though... There are many big and beautiful houses in this area we were walking in... Sometimes you have to stop for a sandwich... This is a little stand where I buy eggs and sometimes homemade jam when we are her

Today was such a beautiful day, I couldn't wait to get outside... View from our lovely french doors into the back garden... It started out as a cold, crisp day but very sunny. I love this beautiful house...we walk by it every day and I can't help but peek in the windows... To the cafe to do some work... Then the sun went away and the view from the cafe window showed it was getting very, very foggy! Making our way back "home" in the fog... The beautiful canals... A stop off at

As I get ready to head out on new travels and adventures I look back on past trips. This is a post from my old blog here. I cleaned up some of the photos a bit as they are over exposed and added other details where necessary. Enoshima is one of my favourite day trips to take outside of Tokyo. We visited it this last time after a short three month stint in Japan where we were planning on staying but had to leave last minute because we didn't get our visa documents in time. It

As some of you may know, this site in the newest incarnation of what has been a long, long run of blogs over the years. Livejournal, Wordpress, Blogger, I've done 'em all! Before this blog was my Wordpress site and I haven't had the heart to shut it down because some of my posts still generate traffic and sometimes I like revisiting the posts, myself, to be reminded of various trips and events. My past blogs were way more chatty than this one has been so far, and has given a

Osprey Farpoint 55 Travel Backpack This is the exact model of backpack that we have been using and it's gone on many trips now and has lasted several years. This backpack is a powerhouse and is seemingly indestructible. Best of all, it has a removable day pack, so I use the daypack as my carry on and check the bigger bag. The daypack has space for a laptop and everything else you might need during a flight and the main pack is easy to pack with a lockable, double zipper that

Well, unfortunately all good things must eventually come to an end and my time in Bali ended quite a while ago. I am already fantasizing about when I can get back there. I have been meaning to post some of these photos for a long time, but my poor little blog has taken a backseat because of all my work-related online work I've been doing. I hope I can post more consistently soon. Summer is always a busy time for me, as I come back to Canada, and work a lot so that I can lea

Photo by Lotte Lohr I didn't do nearly as much blogging as I wanted to in Bali. It was a combination of a few things. Laggy internet and the fact that I'm probably going to need to buy a new computer when I get back home means that posting anything is a very time consuming and sometimes frustrating process that can take way more time than I have. We were also usually outside if we were awake, so I didn't have a lot of indoors time to get my posts together. On top of that,

Photo by Margot Pandone There is a lot to be said for the package tour, particularly for someone travelling solo. It’s an easy way to make sure all your needs are met without having to stray too far. When food, accommodation and transportation are all included, there is a lot less to worry about and you can use your vacation time for just vacationing. However, we do meet a lot of solo travellers on the road who shy away from the preplanned all-inclusive or package tour and

Photo by Sofia Sforza I want to start out by saying that although I have had a few little hiccups here and there when I travel, I have been incredibly fortunate that nothing tragic or horrible has happened while I am away (knock on wood!) And so I am definitely not trying to make light of anyone who has had any kind of harrowing experience while travelling or anyone who has experienced some kind of terrible travel related tragedy. What I’m talking about is the basic little i

Photo by Andrew Montgomery I didn’t travel until later in life compared to a lot of my friends. I never holidayed with family and I think I was about 20 when I took my first flight apart from flying when I was a newborn, which obviously I don’t remember! Because of this, by the time I got around to it, I had already met the love of my life. So I never had to travel alone, which can have its pros and cons. I think that travelling alone gives you a sense of independence and

Photo by Louis Magnotti I have jetlag. Hard. I know, I know, first world problem, am I right? I definitely can't complain too much! We have recently landed on the beautiful island of Bali! But I am super low energy these days and a rough flight has made our first few days here kinda be more of a hibernation, just popping out for food and beach. We've been spending some time catching up on online work and I'm just checking in here to share some of my online picks for this we

photo by lizzie_g This is a difficult question and one I see asked quite a lot on blogs and Twitter in the travel-sphere. And basically it comes down to the individual and what they prefer, as well as where you are travelling to and what is more convenient for the location. But I thought I would include some tips and recommendations that could help you make the decision, whether it’s your first trip out or whether you are considering switching! In the beginning, during my fi

Hello poppets! Well, although this blog is fairly young, it's about to take a dramatic turn in terms of the types of photos you are going to see on here. These are my last few days in the Netherlands until April and on Monday we take a long, LONG journey to Bali, Indonesia! The climate and landscape is about to change drastically! I am so grateful I get to store my winter clothes here in Holland with our friend and I don't have to drag my winter boots and down coat to the tr