Mont Blanc Gear List
Even if you're just taking the cable car to Aiguille du Midi, it cannot be undermined that mother nature is still supreme and she will do...
Mont Blanc Logistics: The Mont Blanc Multipass
If you're spending a couple days in Chamonix-Mont Blanc area, a Mont Blanc Multipass is an absolute must. But first, a few basics:...
Dreaming of Mountaineering: Mont Blanc and L'Aiguille du Midi
When I grow up, I want to be a mountaineer. I just wish I had known sooner. Why else would I eye the mountaineers on the gondola with so...
Bonjour from the Top of Europe (Kind Of)
As I write this, the colors of the sky in the background of the massifs are changing ever so slowly. It’s almost 10 pm here and the sun...
3 Things to Remember Geneva, Switzerland By
Have you ever felt like you knew a place based on what you heard about and you actually visit and it turns out that it actually had zero...
Tour de France Stage 2: Gouda, The Netherlands
I have not yet come across a country that is more bike-crazy than Holland. Cycling is so entrenched in the culture here that it is not...
Haarlem Shake
The heat, much like Tour de France (which began yesterday in Utrecht, right smack in the middle of Holland), is sweeping up this small...
The Scoop on IceCycle Creamery
"If you know how to read, you'll never get lost," my mother used to say when I was learning how to navigate the chaotic streets of Manila...
Salty-Savory-Sweet Spices and Teas: The World in a Bottle
Sometimes, the most briliant, fearless, and radically passionate of ideas surface while picnicking in a garden across from the Palais...
7 Under-the-Radar Experiences in Southern Ontario, Canada
We go to Ontario at least once a year to visit family and after the first few times in downtown Toronto, we've figured that we have more...
