Hidden Treasures: Faroese Villages
In addition to better weather, a summer time visit to the Faroe Islands also provides plenty of daylight hours (16+ hours) for leisurely exploration of the countryside. Between our hiking activities, […]
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Out and About: Macau By Night
On any given weekend, downtown Macau’s party atmosphere is bursting with visitors enjoying local snacks and souvenir shopping. These normally bustling streets look very different after dark. With all the shops […]
Discovering Old Taipa Village
As Asia’s gambling capital, it would be easy to dismiss Macau as nothing more than Las Vegas of the East, a collection of extravagant but soulless casinos in the former […]
Yim Tin Tsai: Hong Kong’s Little Salt Pan
Regular readers of this site will know that I’m a big fan of exploring abandoned buildings and dilapidated villages – and Hong Kong has a fair number of them in […]
Out and About: Exploring Hội An
With a full day in Hội An, there was plenty of time to explore the village and also venture a bit further from the busy town center. Since the touristy […]
A Day in Plover Cove
The slightly cooler weather in Hong Kong means a welcome return to the hiking season. To kick things off, a weeks ago I went on a relatively easy walk in […]
Uchiko Heritage Village
Shikoku (四国, literally “Four Provinces”) is the smallest of Japan’s four main islands, and also the least populated. As such, it is an ideal area to explore by car, taking […]
A Cottage Weekend, Revisited
In what might become a Labour Day holiday tradition, some friends and I spent the long weekend at my buddy Justin’s cottage near Pembroke in the Ottawa Valley, some 5 […]
