#10kTRIP How to save for your dream vacation – By Eva Hamori I don’t normally write sponsored posts, but when I heard about this brilliant program to save for future vacations, I thought what a great way for my fellow Canadian wanderlusts to experience family travel. Now there is no need to deplete your account…
I love this house. Bought in 2004, just after Daniel was born, we moved from our downtown Vancouver 26th floor apartment with a stunning unobstructed view of the city, mountains and a peek a boo water glimpse. We went out for sushi, walked Stanley Park each day rain or shine, and strolled Robson St. Swam…
March 7th I was hurt at work. Not the best day I’ve ever had. I had turned to lift a load of groceries into a shopping cart, and felt something excruciatingly painful shoot down my leg. I left work, after the over the counter muscle relaxers that…
Haines Alaska is where we started from on the ferry down the coast through the Alaskan Panhandle. The weather has been pretty amazing so far. Until we boarded anyway and the weather became foggy. Not much of a view as we made our way towards home, loads of people are glued to the windows to…
My Expat Life – Opening A Restaurant in Southern France Are entrepreneurs born or made? Some people are just natural risk takers, believing in their abilities to succeed where others have failed. Pair that with a gastronome and you have Les Platanes, the hidden treasure of Poilhes. Foodies are gourmands who have refined interests in food. Those…
Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package. Keanu Reeves When people hear our story about how we sold it all to move across the world searching for happiness, many called it our “midlife crisis”. I decided to write about how I…
As we get older, in some ways we get stronger, and while people we love leave us, we eventually understand death is part of life. Imagine the wisdom and realizations a man of ninety-four might have. 94 wow… almost a century. He was born at the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and lived through two…
Alfonz and I are busy these last few days before our move to Europe. We are tying up loose ends, selling off the last bit of our stuff, saying goodbye to friends and family on the West Coast, cancelling credit cards, turning off phones, closing accounts, finding…
Moving to France, selling everything off, cutting ties to financial institutions, and leaving friends and family behind; all have been learning experiences to say the least. Our experience hasn’t totally sunk in and is not completely comprehensible as of yet. A word to the wise! Think long and hard before…
Our last Sunday after two weeks of holidays, we took the kids to Szimpla Kert, a ruin pub turned Sunday Market for lunch. We ate a full assortment of food at the farmer’s market. There were sausages made out of Mangalitsa, the same domestic pig/wild boar cross we know from France. An organic bio baker was there selling his goods….