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Greetings from Toronto!

Happy Labour Day weekend! There is no holiday in the modern Canadian calendar that signals a bigger shift than Labour Day - school, the government, the markets, seemingly everything starts to move again after Labour Day.

Its message is of course the opposite; ideally don't labour, move, or think about the future (inasmuch as one can)...be present, optimally outside and in good company.

Here’s a guess I’ll hazard about you: you really like the smell of freshly-ground coffee beans.

Weirdly, this also applies to many of you who absolutely hate coffee. I’m not one of them - and as an ardent lover of both coffee and coffee shops, I’d always urge you to experiment with both to see if you can find a combination that suits you.

Check out the webinar replay from our recent Q&A webinar about our Island-Hopping in Greece 2024 program:

Check out the webinar replay from our recent Q&A webinar about our Japan: Ancient & Modern 2024 program:

Greetings from Gatineau, Quebec!

I've been continuing my nature tour of the homeland by coming out to Gatineau Park for some kayaking and the lovely serenity of the forests in the final week of August.

I had the pleasure of meeting some members recently while at an event in Toronto and naturally we of course got into a conversation about travel, which interestingly centered around one of the big challenges in travel - how does one overcome the 'never-on-our-radar-before' problem?

Thank you for sharing your passion for travel and helping us choose from wonderful destinations; some maybe we would never have considered.

Greetings from Parry Sound, Ontario!

I spent some time this past week checking over the preparations for some groups travelling this fall, and that has pulled me back into travel mode after a few delightfully slower weeks getting reacquainted with the pleasures of the Canadian summer.

It’ll be a pretty nice day as you climb the steps to the equator.

But then, it’s always pretty nice in Quito. Maybe a little cooler than the rest of Ecuador (that’ll be the altitude - the city is 2.8km above sea level, making flying into Quito one of the world’s most spectacular arrivals at a destination by air). The altitude lifts it above Ecuador’s generally muggy tropical conditions - and generally speaking, temperatures will remain between 10 and 20 degrees Celsius (50 to 68 Fahrenheit) all year round, with little variation.

Check out the webinar replay from our recent Q&A webinar about our Yachting in Tahiti & French Polynesia 2024 program:

Check out the webinar replay from our recent Q&A webinar about our Morocco Land of Enchantment Nov 2024 program: