Your guide to easy travelling – Packing Tips and Hacks

In this post I am going to share the secrets of making your trip easy and light. It all starts at home, with packing. Having travelled to many places and having made a lot of mistakes, here are the travel tips based on my lessons learned so your trip can be better 🙂 My travelling…

20 Ways to get ‘an appetite’ for life

I was recently re-watching the Eat. Pray. Love movie and one phrase spoken by Julia Roberts character has caught my attention. Context: she was talking to her editor/best friend about her plans for travelling around the world after 2 failed relationships and her reasoning was that she lost her appetite for life and she feels…

Creating a Summer Mood

Getting excited for the summer is harder during pandemic time but not impossible. Even when traveling is limited and patios are still closed down in Ontario (so jealous of California!), there are many ways to get ready for the summer and especially to get into the lighter mood. Below are some ideas! Create a summer…

Ways to Get Excited for the Summer

Summer 2019 is almost here! I was thinking about previous summers and the best summer memories that I had, and I realized that many of them took place when I was not travelling or on vacation. Since this year I am doing mostly stay-cation, I was looking for ways to get into the summer mode….

How to Enjoy the Finer Things in Life Without Spending More

I was watching Unpacking Italy lately. For those who do not know, it is a TV-show about two older gentleman travelling through Italy to discover Italy’s secrets – one of them is historian and another is a chef. They focus on the history and art as well as Italy’s fine cuisine. One thing that I…

5 things I learned in Paris

I was dreaming about going to Paris since I was 9. At 15, my good friend went to Paris and sent me a card with an Eiffel Tower that I kept for a while, dreaming that one day I will go there too. At 24, we were planning to go to Paris for our honeymoon…