Category: Travel
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Substance
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: While visiting Scotland’s Outer Hebrides this April, I took a boat trip with Seatrek. We departed from Miavaig,…
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Thinking
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: We had low tide while out for a walk yesterday morning, which made it a perfect time for…
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Opportunity
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: a cooling fountaavenin fronting one of the avenues in London’s Regent’s Park. Designed by John Nash and James…
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Knowledge
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: the golden hour, and flowers above the pool at Kitsilano (Kits) Beach
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Hot
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: the cherry atop the Trafalgar Square this April brought smiles to many faces, including mine as I snapped…
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Jumping
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: some players in motion at Kits Beach yesterday, the third and final day of this year’s Vancouver Open…
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Home
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: a look at some of the elegant architecture in Stockholm’s Östermalm neighbourhood. A couple of friends and I…
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Early
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: Amsterdam’s Herengracht Canal, which has some incredible looking homes fronting the water
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Habits
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: a vivid plant pairing: I came across this orange lily flanking some purple pansies and thought the colour…
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Kindness
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: close up with a splendid planting of white poppies. I came across these on yesterday’s walk in Vancouver’s…
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Remember
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: on the recommendation of a Swedish friend, I stayed at Hotel Skeppsholmen while in Stockholm this spring. Have…
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Weekend Poll Results: Well Travelled Assistants
You are one well travelled bunch! Readers’ 2019 plans include domestic and international travel for leisure, conferences and other business purposes. Click here to read more.
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The Incredible Isle of Skye
Are you looking for a fascinating place to add to your travel list? The Isle of Skye is a place of incredible beauty, whether or not you have Scottish roots.
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Vancouver’s Not-So-Smelly Corpse Flower
The smell has come and gone, but Vancouverites are still flocking to see the unique Corpse Plant. Any guesses as to how the largest flowering plant on the planet earned…
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Podcast: Travel and Packing Tips
Are you gearing up for conference or other business travel? Or perhaps it’s vacation time! Either way, this podcast offers helpful packing and travel tips.
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Podcast: Day One in Edinburgh, Scotland
Life isn’t all about work! Listen in for ideas on how to spend a day in Edinburgh.
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Macdonald Holyrood: Early Impressions from Edinburgh
Following a whirlwind of activity in London over the last week, I hopped on a late afternoon train to Edinburgh Monday afternoon. It seemed a fitting way to launch this…
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Weekend Poll: London (and Amsterdam and Edinburgh!) Calling
Happy Saturday, everyone! How was your week? Mine was hellish in terms of workload, but the weekend is upon us – and, since we’ve been covering some heavy topics in…