Remember Best Of? If you aren’t my mom (aka, you have’t been following since the very beginning of this blog just over one year ago – whoa), Best Of was a Sunday round up of my favourite travel, food, photography, and design posts on the web. It sort of fizzled in April, and while I’ve
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This is a pre-scheduled post. We are on our way to Antarctica this week and don’t have internet access! In fact, if our Drake Passage crossing goes (relatively) smoothly, we could be setting foot on Antarctica later this afternoon! If not today, then send happy thoughts to my tummy and hope that we get off
Today is my one year blogiversary. Today I’m getting on a boat to go to Antarctica. Who would have thought that exactly one year after writing this post about my wanderlust, I’d be going to the seventh continent? Don’t worry though. You won’t be lonely! I’ve got a handful of pre-programmed posts scheduled for while
Today we get on a plane – probably right as this post goes live – and fly to Ushuaia, Argentina. If you haven’t heard of Ushuaia, I’m not surprised! On a world map, it is at the very very bottom… You know what’s not on that world map? And you know
A lot of people have been asking about our apartment in Buenos Aires. Ok. One person has asked about our apartment in Buenos Aires. But that is all it takes to inspire me to write a post, people! We rented our apartment site unseen (for 3 months), through a service called ByT Argentina. Here is
[Begin rant] As you all know, I’m pretty dorky, I’m way into money, and I’m totally detail oriented. This means that I am the go-to expert for all my friends and family on credit card rewards programs in Canada. The CapitalOne World Aspire Mastercard has the best reward rate in Canada for most economy seats
On Friday I went for a much needed photo walk. I was feeling like I needed some inspiration (apart from my computer screen). Yesterday I decided to finally download the images and edit them. And I’m a little bit in love. Especially with the super sized green bench.
“When in Argentina” right? One of my favourite things about Argentine cuisine is empanadas. Like their distant neighbours – dumplings – empanadas are little parcels of deliciousness. When we were here three years ago, we had our favourite empanadas yet at La Casa de las Empanadas in Cafayate, and nothing has quite live up to
Last Friday I told you all about how I was quitting my job and following my dreams. Moving to Buenos Aires. Becoming a full time entrepreneur. And it sure sounds like I’ve got it all together. Well, today I’ve got a little secret to share with you: living “the dream”, well it’s a lot less
I was inspired to make my own desktop background by two of Katrina’s (Pugly Pixel’s) recent posts (one, two). (Interestingly, I also used knowledge gleaned from Katrina’s tutorial on making stationery to make this desktop!) I love my blank blue sheet of paper desktop. I find it inspiring to start the day with a blank
Last time we were in Argentina, we didn’t take the ferry across the Rio de la Palta to visit Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay. A small city, only 40kms from Buenos Aires, as the crow flies (or, in this case, as the ferry goes). This time, we were in Uruguay anyway shooting Morgan and Agustin’s wedding
I’ve been lucky enough to cook in lots and lots (and lots) of kitchens. Kitchens in Edmonton, innumerable hostel kitchens around the world, the “kitchen” (i.e., the rice cooker) in my dorm in Hong Kong, the beautiful kitchen in our chateau in France, various kitchens in various apartments in Vancouver and Toronto, and for this
Most of my readers started following this blog when I was a full-time tax lawyer, part-time wedding photographer, and was posting photography, cooking, decorating, and diy ideas from my apartment in Toronto. Then in October I got all “goals-oriented” on you with my 30-before-30 list. And then, boom, in November I announced that I was
Once again, I’m a little late with my Travel Tuesday post. Or, if I’m being totally honest here – cause that is how I roll – on Tuesday I forgot it was Tuesday and posted my Argentine Asado post. A the joys of being newly self-employed! No fear, I’ll just give you a “Travel Thursday”
We haven’t even arrived in Argentina yet (we are in Uruguay until this evening) and already I’m writing about the asado (Argentine barbeque). Like in Canada and the U.S., where barbeque means both the grill itself and the act of having a barbeque, so in Argentina can asado mean both as well. We experienced our