Here are my pics from a recent 8-day adventure in Iceland! I travelled with three of my closest girlfriends, and I couldn't have picked better people to go with. We got to see so much in eight days. Iceland is expensive, so if you're going to go, go in a small group to cut
If the creators of Avatar wanted to re-film the movie using a real-life setting, they would undoubtedly choose Croatia's natural gem, Plitvice Lakes National Park, as their location. Plitvice (pronounced Plit-vit-sa) is made up of sixteen azure pools that vary in size and depth, wedged like a necklace of bright blue jewels into steep limestone crags.
I spent my final day in Zagreb (pronounced Zaa-greb) doing a self-directed walking tour of the city. While it was tempting to while away the hours in a pub crawl-style coffee consuming situation, I chose to learn a bit more about the city instead. And I enjoyed plenty of cups of tasty, aromatic java along
Considering how much I dislike flying, it’s a wonder I’ve voluntarily been on so many airplanes in the past year. It took me a total of four jets to get to Zagreb, Croatia’s capital city. It will take me five to get home. The first flight was the tease, the puddle-hop from Victoria to Vancouver,
My least favourite part about travelling anywhere, is getting home. And this time it was going to be a two-day affair, sans fearless boyfriend. Ten months of my life was now crammed unceremoniously into a suitcase whose admittance onto the airplane was going to be questionable due to its excessive weight. Not able to bear
The time is coming for me to go home. I've spent the last ten months of my life in a country whose population (mostly) lives so far beneath the poverty line, that those of us blessed enough to have been born in a developed nation, cannot comprehend it. In Phnom Penh I am lucky enough
Living in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, means that I have to be prepared for the unexpected. Recently I was asked to take my camera into a very impoverished community situated on a lake that is being pumped full of the city's sewage, while simultaneously being filled in for development. Talk about backwards. Getting to photograph a
Last week I had the opportunity to go to Siem Reap, Cambodia, to do a photoshoot for a new restaurant opening there in October. Marum is yet another culinary offspring of NGO Friends International, and like it's counterparts in Phnom Penh, will be the hospitality training ground for former marginalized and street youth, as well as
We entered Malaysia on Dec 28, by bus. First, we bid our luxurious hotel room in Singapore farewell, and enjoyed one final breakfast buffet bonanza in the dining room. I snuck a few extra treats into a bag when the staff weren't looking. Then we headed to the bus stop. We missed our bus by
The holiday season means different things for different people, but for most, it's a time to be with family. For the past 28 years of my life I've spent Christmas surrounded by the traditions of my family, and the people I love. In early December we set up the tree and hang a lifetime of
