Discover the world in a day at Destinations: The Holiday& Travel Show, the essential event for travel inspiration. Get tips from the travel experts while experiencing Destinations Sensations, demonstrations of global culture, culinary delights and live entertainment on the World Entertainment Stage. Meet the Expert Theatres feature inspirational talks to fuel your imagination, experts include…

Our first speaker was Janice Booth, whose talk on Rwanda was something different. Instead of highlighting the gorillas and monkeys that tourists go to see Janice told us about how she became involved with the country. She began by doing translation work, which then lead to sponsoring a child through Primary school. Janice had kept…

For information on Ontario meetings, please contact Svatka Hermanek: shermane@schulich.yorku.ca or Bruce Weber: tel. 416-203-0911 or Paul Webb: tel. 416-694-8259. Meetings are held on the third Friday of January, March, May, September and November, usually at the Old York Tower, 85 Esplanade (It is at the south-east corner of Church & Esplanade – 2 blocks…

There are so many things to see and do in Istanbul, it is the most enchanting city. One of the best trips that the Beetle made was a trip up the Bosphorus. The Bosphorus is a strait of water separating the European and the Asian parts of Istanbul. It is 35 km (20 miles) long…

Fancy a romantic trans-Atlantic cruise with your sweetheart? How about a nice, relaxing voyage where you row 16 hours a day for 60 days, eat lukewarm freeze-dried food, roll your vessel upside down four times, and fend off the amorous advances of a 60-foot whale? Meet Liz O’Keeffe and Richard Mayon-White, two British adventurers (see…

The Cayman Islands, nestled in the temperate and scenic Caribbean, are a paradise retreat for celebrities and vacation travellers across the world. Three English- speaking islands, Grand Cayman and its sister islands, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac, are small communities just an hour south of Miami secluded in the pristine Caribbean Sea. Local weather is…

Cascais is a great weekend break from the UK. There are several airlines that fly to Lisbon, including EasyJet, Monarch, British Airways and Monarch. From Lisbon airport, it is a fifty minute bus journey on the Aerobus, costing just 8.50 euros to Estoril or Cascais. Cascais is 6.5km (4 miles) W of Estoril and 61km…

There is only one airport in Barcelona city, commonly known by the locals as L’Aeroport del Prat. Barcelona Airport is located 12 kilometres south-east of Barcelona city centre and 3km from Barcelona’s harbour (one of the most important in the Mediterranean Sea). There are a few ways you can get from Barcelona Airport to the…

Karen (see photo left) is a London based artist and architect whose passion is sketching and painting life around her, in her annotated, watercolour sketchbook diaries. Karen says, “This might be in the bustle of a market, on the top of a cathedral or down in a wine cellar, the middle of a city or…