Postagens de Melissa Vroon:
Postado em: 28 de julho de 2020
“Don’t move, don’t even breathe”, I hissed at my 10-year old daughter. No, we weren’t facing down a grizzly bear on a back-country trail. I was steering a stand-up paddleboard on Lac Beauvert in Jasper National Park. It wasn’t my first time manoeuvring a SUP but it was the first
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Postado em: 19 de maio de 2020
Como muitas pessoas, o fechamento das viagens internacionais e o fechamento das fronteiras frustraram meus planos de viagem. Nunca fui à Itália, mas há muitos anos sonhava em ir e, ao longo desses anos, me empenhei em aprender algumas palavras e frases em italiano, preparando-me para minha eventual aventura italiana.
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Postado em: 31 de janeiro de 2020
I switched off my headlamp so my eyes would adjust to the darkness. I could see the glittery stars above and the twinkling alpine ski village below as our group trudged along tight trails between snow-laden trees. I was on the Moonlight Snowshoe Tour at Sun Peaks Resort with my
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Postado em: 28 de fevereiro de 2019
Férias com a família a preços acessíveis e a ilha de Kauai, no Havaí, geralmente não são sinônimos. Embora a maior parte da ilha seja excepcionalmente cara, suas acomodações não precisam ser no Kiahuna Plantation Resort. Localizada na ensolarada costa sul de Poipu, esta propriedade de 35 hectares à beira-mar oferece vistas espetaculares do pôr do sol, extensos gramados,
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Postado em: 2 de abril de 2018
An avid list-maker, I wanted to make sure I had a stack of activities and outings planned for a trip to Palm Springs before heading south, so I asked a local acquaintance, “what is there to do in Palm Springs?” The reply? There are loads of fun things to do,
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Postado em: 16 de outubro de 2017
“What the heck are those?” we both blurted in unison. My husband and I were startled by the eery greeting of scarecrows welcoming us to Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. Their toothy grins and haunting stares were a combination of kitschy and creepy. Garish and gaudy, these handcrafted scarecrows are everywhere
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Postado em: 7 de julho de 2017
I was basking in the sunshine while bobbing on a boat dock on Springfield Lake 30 minutes north-west of Halifax. It was our last day of our holiday, and I was mentally selling everything and moving to Nova Scotia. Our family had spent ten short days of our summer vacation
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Postado em: 5 de abril de 2017
“Un, deux, trois….” a 10 year old girl, her mother, and grandmother counted as they waited for the boiled maple sap poured on snow to harden. I am at La P’tite Cabane d’la Côte, a sugar shack not far from Montreal, about to indulge in a true Canadian delicacy –
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Postado em: 29 de julho de 2016
Update (2019): Rockies Heli no longer operates from the Kananaskis Base, just the Icefield Base located at Cline River between Lake Louise and Jasper. Yoga is meant to connect the body with the breath and to reach ultimate tranquility. I’m finding it impossible to find my inner calm in downward dog
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Postado em: 10 de junho de 2016
I’m wrapped in a cozy blanket to ward off the early spring chill while I watch surfers master the waves from my balcony at the Long Beach Lodge Resort on Cox Bay in Tofino, BC. Tofino is Canada’s surf capital and holds a coveted rank on National Geographic’s world’s best
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