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The Muppets starred in Booking.com's 2025 Superbowl ad
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Booking.com had the field to itself for travel ads during this year’s Superbowl

February 10, 2025February 10, 2025 Mark Stachiew

I don’t know if you can judge the state of the travel industry by the ads that were aired during that year’s Superbowl broadcast, but

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Kayaking with the manatees in Crystal River, Florida. (Handout photo)
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In an effort to be a better tourist, I chose not to swim with manatees, but to kayak with them instead

February 4, 2025February 4, 2025 Mark Stachiew

For years, one of the items on my travel bucket list was to swim with manatees in Florida, but the more I researched the topic,

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Expedia’s latest Air Hacks report debunks myths about how to buy the cheapest air fares

January 28, 2025January 28, 2025 Mark Stachiew

There are a lot of differing opinions among Canadian travellers on when is the best time to buy an airplane ticket and many of those

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The Lipstick Forest is one of Montreal's most iconic works of public art.
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I toured Montreal’s Underground City with an audio tour from TourBird

January 16, 2025January 16, 2025 Mark Stachiew

As a lifelong Montrealer, I frequently encounter tourists looking for directions to the Underground City. It’s a part of the city that I take for

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Cycling in Taiwan is a national obsession. (Photo by Mark Stachiew)
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Exploring Taipei on two wheels

January 7, 2025January 7, 2025 Mark Stachiew

After several hours of cycling the hot streets of Taipei, it was time for a break so I stepped into a 7-Eleven for something to

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these are the travel trends for 2025
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Experts say these top trends will define travel in 2025

January 3, 2025January 3, 2025 Mark Stachiew

It’s the time of year when travel experts come out of the woodwork to predict trends for the coming year. Some of these trends are

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Where to travel in 2025? Would you prefer some random suggestions or trust an AI for ideas?

December 24, 2024December 24, 2024 Mark Stachiew

Anyone who’s followed this blog for any amount of time knows that I like to make fun of those end-of-year lists where travel experts predict

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Top 10 trending destinations for 2025: Where the experts say you should go next

December 17, 2024January 30, 2025 Mark Stachiew

It’s that time of year when travel editors are filling pages with their where-to-travel-next-year lists. While these lists are not completely arbitrary, they mostly are,

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About Mark Stachiew

Mark Stachiew has been exploring the world and writing about it for more than 30 years. His travel stories have appeared in numerous newspapers, magazines and online publications in Canada, the United States and beyond.

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    This isn’t the future or the past. It’s the no This isn’t the future or the past. It’s the now.
    Words to live by. Words to live by.
    Birdwatching from the balcony at the cottage where Birdwatching from the balcony at the cottage where we spotted a bunch of blue jays feasting on ants in a stump, a mommy mallard and her six ducklings dozing on our beach and (for the first time ever), a pair of double-crested cormorants fishing on the lake.
    A break between storm clouds led to some beautiful A break between storm clouds led to some beautiful light on the lake during this last long weekend of summer.
    With so many cloudy nights and wildfire smoke, Aug With so many cloudy nights and wildfire smoke, August didn’t start out very well for astrophotography, but things improved in the middle of the month. Here are some of the things I tracked with my smart telescopes the past four weeks in light-polluted suburban skies. 🔭 🌖💫#astrophotography #keeplookingup #seestar #dwarflab #stars #galaxy #nebula #astronomy #astrophoto
    I do enjoy a nice mural. This one from Montreal’ I do enjoy a nice mural. This one from Montreal’s St-Henri borough caught my eye.
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