As I scrolled through my Facebook newsfeed and Twitter feed yesterday, I noticed a new crop of Canadian media posts with warnings, tips and scary stories about travelling to the US. It all seemed so one-sided that I thought some positivity was in order. This Canadian girl who loves to globe-trot, just returned from her second trip…
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Opening The Tastebuds
I am not sure if it is just because I'm getting older or because I have the opportunity to try more things more often than most, but my occasional treat of an aperatif before dinner is now becoming a little bit more like an obsession. I love how my nose twitches ever so slightly at the…
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Travel “Tips”
[caption id="attachment_4470" align="alignnone" width="900"] Euro coins on cash receipt from the restaurant.[/caption] The more I travel around our grand world, the more I am becoming more aware of the differences in tipping culture from one country to the next...and sometimes even by region. When researching online, one can always seem to find numerous articles suggesting the…
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Is Ignorance Bliss?
The new menus miraculously appeared in franchises across Ontario. Beside the large, colourful pictures of oozing cheese, juicy steaks and golden fries, most of Ontario's franchise menus now have a series of numbers squeezed in beside the prices. We now all know how many calories are in that Shared Appetizer Platter that we usually order…
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