As rain splashed down upon me, I looked into café window after café window to find anything I could quickly consume. In a city where Pret a Manger closes at 5pm, it’s challenging to find what I was looking for at 530pm… but I was hungry, and in need of something satisfying prior to the […]

The forecast for our week in France was excellent: sunny every day, and only 3 hours of rain scheduled for the entirety of our trip. Literally only 3 hours. It just so happened that those 3 hours came during our visit to the Eiffel Tower. Pouring rain and jetlag encumbered our trip to the top […]

Melbourne vs Sydney was apparently a big debate for Australians. I liked to think of the cities as two separate yet equally alluring “in their own way” destinations that carry the pride of urban Australia on their backs. Apparently Australians are more biased and polarizing in their opinions than I. Nevertheless, I arrived in Melbourne […]

We rarely venture to The Cape. It’s a large, sprawling destination I personally know very little of, and perhaps this fact alone is what generally persuades me from going. That and the fact you need to book a place many months in advance, especially if you are going with a family. In January, we booked […]