Holiday Gift Ideas for your Favourite Traveller

This is the time of year when people scramble to come up with original, and hopefully useful, gifts for friends and family. Here are some that may appeal to the globe-trotters on your list. 1.     HEYS CARRY-ON Many airlines are charging for checked luggage now. If you have a relatively short trip (or you […]

Mountain Trek: The Transformation Vacation

“Got the Nordic poles? Check. First-Aid kit? Check. Bear spray? Yup….And we’re ready to go!” our hiking guide proclaims. “Do you mean ‘bug spray’?” I ask, with slight trepidation in my voice. “No, I meant ‘bear spray’….But don’t worry – it’s usually just a precaution”. Hiking at Monica Meadows And so, another group of urban […]

Packing for Trips: The Carry-On

I’m in Hong Kong for more than a week and packed a huge checked-in suitcase for the trip.  It is the holiday season, after all, and there are many dinners and reunions to go to.  However, that isn’t the only suitcase I have with me.  I also packed a smaller roller-on-board to take with me […]

Affordable New York Dining at The Corner Bistro

Meghna Lamore The Corner Bistro is a New York City institution. Nestled cozily on the corner of West 4th and Jane, just steps off of 8th Avenue, it’s a small, dingy and rather ramshackle place. It’s quite easy for a passer-by’s eye to slip right over the thin neon sign, and for his feet to […]