By: Madeline Weinfield There is something so nostalgic about summer that I can never quite put my finger on. Perhaps it’s a feeling leftover from a girlhood obsessed with the glamorous 1920’s Atlantic City “Diving Girls” riding horses off sixty foot platforms into pools of water with enthusiastic crowds cheering them on. Every summer I…
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Turkish Baths: A Survival Guide
By : Alison Spencer Turkey calls to travelers for any number of reasons. There are those who go for the food, eager to sample stuffed grape leaves, kebabs, and, of course, baklava. Some venture to explore and photograph the fascinating architecture, from the Blue Mosque to the hillside dwellings in Cappadocia. Still others visit to…
A Royal Weekend at the Crane Estate
By: Madeline Weinfield There are few places you can go in 2018 that feel so totally removed, so transformative, that you wonder if you’re wandering through an alternative universe. Such is the feeling that came to mind when I spent a late May weekend wandering the immense grounds of the Crane Estate at Castle Hill,…
Three Ways to Be a Conscious Entrepreneur
By : Âri de Fauconberg Have you always dreamed of becoming a conscious, change-making entrepreneur but haven’t known where to begin? New entrepreneurs within the conscious business space can sometimes get lost in wanting to do the most good in as many areas as possible. Knowing what niche of conscious entrepreneurship is most closely aligned…
Wildlife Spotting in Chile
By: Helen Cordery Think of wildlife safaris and you probably conjure up images of binocular-wielding tourists marvelling at long necked oddities from their jeeps. I was like you—I certainly never imagined the cool slopes and granite boulders at the south of the Americas to be a wildlife haven. However, wildlife spotting in the Americas is…
Cultural Confusion From London to Beijing
By : Talek Nantes Ah… cultural confusion! If you’ve traveled at all, at one time or another you have fallen prey to the little, and sometimes big, misunderstandings that come with immersing yourself in an unfamiliar culture. Sometimes these misunderstandings can be embarrassing like that time in Japan when I graciously, and mistakenly, accepted a…
Ponso No Tao: The Island of the People
By : Laurence Coulton The boat lurched sideways as a wall of water crashed into the hull, huge swells surging upward creating momentary craters of water that threatened to engulf the ferry at any moment. Mortality felt ever more tangible as a dark and angry piece of the Pacific colluded with the storm clouds above…
Summer Essentials for Travels Near and Far
By: Madeline Weinfield Summer is finally here and with it bucket lists of adventures and trips near and far. There is no better time that this season of long days and warm nights to discover something new, whether in your neighborhood or a new country. Wherever summer takes you, here are a few recent finds…
The True Cost of Living Abroad
By: KT Browne In 2014, I was staring at a fish tank in a coffee shop in southern Taiwan—the kind of tank that had been built into the wall—when I got it into my head that I needed to get to Iceland. This “need” felt very much like an urge in the sense that I…
