Everyone thinks they know Sicily before they get there. They picture the Godfather. Maybe the Sopranos. Maybe just a vague image of sun-bleached coastline and someone’s grandmother making pasta. And look — none of that is wrong, exactly. But it’s also nowhere near the full picture. Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean. It’s…
There are two things I really love in life: movies and travel. And the reason is probably the same for both — they take you somewhere you’d never reach in your regular Tuesday. I’m a big Christopher Nolan fan. When I heard he was adapting Homer’s The Odyssey with a $250 million budget and a…
Most people couldn’t find Cape Breton on a map before they went. Then they went. And they’ve been telling people about it ever since. That’s the thing about this island. It sits at the northeastern tip of Nova Scotia, quiet and unhurried, with sea cliffs that drop straight into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, mountain…
The boats are sitting on the harbour floor. It’s 9am. By 2pm, 40 feet of water will fill that same space. That’s not a misprint. That’s Hall’s Harbour on the Bay of Fundy — and it’s the moment this province stops feeling like a pleasant Canadian road trip and starts feeling like something you couldn’t…
Because “just book a hotel” is the worst advice you’ll get for this trip. There’s a version of your Japan trip where you check into a beige business hotel, sleep fine, and see all the sights. That version is fine. But you’ll spend the whole flight home wondering what you missed. Japan has accommodation options…
Tokyo has 14 million people in the city proper. The metro system has 285 stations. There are entire districts dedicated to nothing but electronics, or anime, or vintage denim. You can see why people look at it and think: where do I even start? Here’s the thing — Tokyo isn’t hard to travel. It just…
There’s a moment that happens in Osaka. You’re standing at Ebisubashi Bridge at night, the Glico running man is blazing in neon above the canal, the smell of takoyaki is drifting from somewhere to your left, and someone nearby is already on their third skewer of kushikatsu. And you think: why did I spend so…
Japan doesn’t ease you in. You step off the plane, and the place immediately makes a case for itself — the trains run to the second, the convenience store food is better than most restaurants back home, and somehow everything is both ancient and wildly modern at the same time. I’ve been back three times….
Most people do Kyoto wrong. Not because they pick the wrong temples. Not because they miss some obscure neighbourhood only locals know about. They do it wrong because they show up at 10am, shuffle through the same five spots they’ve already seen on Instagram, and leave thinking yeah, that was nice. Nice. Kyoto deserves better…