• Travel 101

    When it wasn’t a bug bite.

    By the time we landed back in Canada and were about an hour’s drive left from home I knew I needed to go straight to the ER.  That is how my amazing trip to Peru ended. Crying in the car wondering what the heck bit me and what was going to be the treatment, cause at that point in time I wanted my leg removed, just take it off, kinda pain. Let me rewind back a few days for you.  We were day 2, hiking the Inca Trail in Peru, my dream trip.  We were not in the tip-top shape we had hoped to be in before making this hike. …

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  • Europe

    Tilburg, Netherlands

    What a sweet little place! We arrived by train and immediately Sam commented on the changes to the train station and the area around the station!  This stop was for a walk down memory lane for Sam as he lived there for 18 months in 2008/9. Tilburg now has a population of 217000 but when Sam lived there the population was less than half the population!  One of Sam’s other favourite things to do was to go watch the Tilburg Trappers, the local team in the Dutch hockey league! Tilburg also often hosts many festivals throughout the year!   The Nedtrain facility is now “Loc Hall”, the new public library and…