25 photos to inspire you to voyage through the Northwest Passage
What is it about us humans that makes us want to conquer things? We get the same endorphins from a stint at the gym or chowing down on chocolate cake.…
10 years of living in Wānaka as an expat
Exactly ten years ago, I arrived in Wānaka in a little red car with my whole life packed inside it. Back then, Wānaka was still a sleepy little mountain town…
Arrowtown in autumn has earned its reputation
You can take the basic bitch out of the East Coast, but she’ll still love everything pumpkin spice. It’s starting to feel like my favorite season here in New Zealand.…
Ilulissat: a scenic city of icebergs
Ok, ok, ok. I know it’s a bit of a stretch to call Ilulissat a city, but since Greenland’s population caps at 56,000 people, it counts. Greenland’s third biggest city/town/community…
New Zealand’s blue mushroom the world is obsessed with
Is it just me, or are mushrooms having a moment? Nowadays, I feel like everywhere I look, I see mushrooms. From decorating cushions to foraging with friends to microdosing, mushrooms…
30 photos to inspire you to visit Greenland
“Death or the west coast of Greenland,” the indomitable polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen once said, and it could have been the motto of his 1888 expedition, the first crossing of…
25 photos to inspire you to visit Iceland by sea
It was exactly ten years since my first visit to Iceland when I returned last summer with Adventure Canada. And let me tell you, it couldn’t be more different. To…
Arctic Iceland – visiting the island of birds on Grímsey
I never thought I’d say this, but I found a bird I hate. It was a moody, beautiful day when we landed on Grímsey on our Iceland Circumnavigation expedition trip.…
Postcards from icy Baffin Bay
When I imagine the Arctic the first thing to spring to mind is the ice. A sea of ice. Life in the far north revolves around the sea ice in…
10 things that surprised me about the Faroe Islands
I have this quirky thing about me that sometimes I intentionally don’t research too much into places I’m visiting for the first time. Sometimes, I’ll do light research or planning,…
