Images of Europe, We’re HouseTrip Diplomats
If you’ve been following along on Twitter, or Instagram you’ll know that we’re in Europe at the moment. We’ve been jetsetting from one major city to another as we work as HouseTrip Diplomats showcasing how apartment rentals can give the average traveller a taste of living local. HouseTripping Video Bloggers It’s an exciting project for us [...]
Lisbon for Under 5 Euros
5 Euros (USD 6.70) won’t buy much these days. In some places, you might not even be able to get a cup of coffee for you and your partner for this much. But depending on where you travel, for example Lisbon, Portugal, 5 Euros can actually stretch a lot. You don’t need to go to [...]
London’s Top 5 Alternative Attractions
A majority of tourists that visit London this year will head straight for the typical tourist hot spots such as The London Eye or Buckingham Palace. Little do they know is that there is so much more to this amazing city than Prince Harry’s crown jewels, The River Thames and pigeons. If you are coming [...]
Iceland Waterfall In Black & White
If you go hiking in Iceland with someone from Iceland, odds are good that you will end up talking about the trolls, and being told about warnings such as these: Genuine male trolls are still a threat as they are likely to steal women and children, and are now more intelligent than their ancestors. If [...]
Northern Lights Delight
Ask any photographer and they will say that on their life’s shot list (if they were to have one) would be to capture the Northern Lights (a.k.a. the Aurora Borealis). This was certainly on my list, and I got my chance on a cold, clear night in southern Iceland. I’ve never seen anything like the Northern Lights. [...]
Travel Inspiration: Greece
Travel Inspiration from Greece. I lived in Greece for about four months and although I spent most of my time in Thessaloniki, Athens had an incredible amount to offer. Everything from gorgeous scenic views that pictures could never do justice, history, culture, delicious food, a wild night life, architecture, and a beautifully relaxed way of [...]
A Journey Through The Pyrenees
Travel through the Pyrenees is a feast for the eyes and a treat to the senses. I mean that in every way. The food, the drink the company and most importantly the scenery will give you sheer pleasure every day. We had the opportunity to travel through some of the most beautiful landscape in Europe [...]
Bond Locations We’ve Been To
Bond… James Bond While we were back in Canada last week, we happened to be home for the debut of Skyfall, the latest James Bond movie with Daniel Craig. We both agree, he’s the best James Bond ever and while I was watching the movie, I started to think about all the cool Bond Locations [...]
Adventure Park in La Molina, Not Just for Kids
We’ve always wanted to try a high ropes course. So when bad weather kept us from flying in a hot air balloon in Spain, our frowns turned upside down when we visited the adventure park in La Molina.. The guys at Altitudextrem, were kind enough to fit us into their busy schedule at the last [...]
Grounded in the Pyrenees
The air was still and the sky was clear when we awoke for our day of hot air ballooning over the Pyrenees of Spain. The day before had shown signs of bad weather moving in and we went to bed convinced that our flight would be cancelled, but when we woke up, it looked like [...]
Hiking Vall de Nuria
We had been anticipating our hike in Vall de Nuria for quite some time as we travelled through the Pyrenees of Spain. After weeks of indulging on food and wine, it was a welcome change to explore this magnificent region of the country by foot. Like all things Spanish, our trip to Vall de Nuria [...]
Our Best Switzerland Pictures
We already shared some Instagram photos with you from our time in Switzerland, but an iPhone can never compare to a photograph carefully crafted with a Canon DSLR. Dave took amazing Switzerland pictures from Lucerne to Bern and Interlaken to Geneva. When I look at this collection of Swiss photos, I am impressed by their [...]
Three on the Move Tours in Spain
The Pyrenees mountain region of Spain is a place filled with trips and tours to please any adventure traveler. Between hiking, cycling, snowboarding and mountain climbing, people could spend weeks exploring this northern region of the country. While we had the opportunity to take advantage of the usual tours in Spain, we also had the [...]
Finding the Perfect Gin and Tonic in Spain
When we first arrived in Girona, Spain, our friend Jaume from Costa Brava Tourism told us that he was going to make us his signature gin and tonic drink. Dave’s eyes lit up, he loves a good old G&T. It was his drink of choice when we met in college but I never developed a [...]
City Tours of Barcelona with HouseTrip
Whenever we take a HouseTrip city tour we can be sure that we’re going to live like a local. Not only do you live like a local by staying in a privately owned apartment, they also encourage you to live like a local when visiting a new city and a city tour is a great [...]
Spain Photos – Best of #InPyrenees
We took a hiatus from sharing our time in Costa Brava as we traveled through Switzerland, but we’re back baby and starting with our Spain photos round up! Spain is starting to feel like a second home to us. We visited the country (particularly the Catalunya region) three times this year. We made amazing new friends [...]
The Best of Switzerland from Lucerne to Geneva
We are very lucky to be able to do what we do for a living. We know it and appreciate it because we spent so many years not doing what we loved. We would only dream about jetting off to places like Switzerland and now we get to experience these incredible moments on a regular [...]
Adventure Travel World Summit, More Than A Conference
On October 9, 2012 over 600 delegates from 55 nations gathered in Lucerne Switzerland for the Adventure Travel World Summit. It is a gathering of like minded people exchanging thoughts, learning from one another and helping to change the world through responsible tourism, activism and conservation and to simply have a lot of fun. This [...]
Four Unique Things to do in Switzerland
It was the Adventure Travel World Summit that brought us to Switzerland for the second time in our lives. Back in 2002 we didn’t know much about the country except that it was expensive and it’s a mecca for offshore banking. We really didn’t have a list of things to do in Switzerland before going [...]
Switzerland Photos on Instagram
Why Should you see a bunch of Switzerland photos? Because it’s beautiful! If there is one word to that comes to mind when thinking of Switzerland, it is manicured. Everything is flawless. Switzerland is clean, it’s pretty and everything is arranged to perfection. The cows are cooperative when taking their photos and the mountains frame [...]
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