Whether we’re ready for a new year or not, the final day of 2016 is here. My social media feeds are filled with hundreds of reflections based on the last three hundred and sixty-five days and action plans for the upcoming three hundred and sixty-five. As I recently discovered, I’m…
Today – a day before Swedish julafton – we’re culminating the Holiday Spirit Immersion Program by visiting the Christmas market that started it all. Just over 2 years ago, I visited Stockholm in mid-November to celebrate a friend’s birthday. We explored Sweden’s capital for nearly two days, and many hours…
Have you turned on that holiday music yet? If you haven’t, it’s time to press “play” because we are about to embark on an Advent Adventure to Aachen, Germany. This instalment of the Holiday Spirit Immersion Program takes us to a medieval city located on the very western edge of Germany. It is…
Turn on that holiday music, take out that tinsel and pour yourself a cup of steaming Glühwein because it’s time to enter the festive world of European Christmas markets. From roughly mid-November to December 24th, hundreds of European city squares and old town streets become home to annual Christmas markets. The…
As it turned out, blogging about a city close to my heart could not fit into a single post (unless I wanted the post to have a rather high and slightly alarming word count…which I did not). Refresher: Warsaw is the city close to my heart. As I mentioned in my first…
Warsaw, Poland. Can I even begin to tackle sharing and explaining the beauty and complexity of this Eastern European city? I’m not 100% sure I can get this done in just a couple of posts, but I will try. Warsaw is Poland’s capital city and is situated in the heart of…
