weekly ezine

Are you currently planning a big post-pandemic trip? Now’s the time! Canada is now over 50% of the full population vaccinated! Woo hoo! Golf courses and tennis courts are re-opening in Ontario, vaccines are now open to 12 and over, and we have the premier announcing a 3 phase return to public gatherings and restaurants. […]

Happy Sunday! Hope you are doing well. I’m thrilled to see that Canada is now sitting at almost 45% of us having received a first vaccine. See http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-vaccination-tracker-how-many-people-in-canada-have-received-shots-1.5247509 Hope is on the horizon. And we all have great anticipation for the holidays and return to normal ahead! (Although Michele Norris tells us “Don’t reach for normal,

It’s time to celebrate Mother Earth!   Happy Mother’s Day to you and yours. And Happy Mother’s Day to Mother Earth!   I’m very proud of my daughter, Ceili Halloran, who chose to do her grade 9 science project on sustainability to focus exclusively on “Sustainable Tourism”. Have a look at what Ceili did! I’m

This week, I attended Virtuoso’s “Ready, Reset, Go”. For four days, I attended our virtual travel trade webinar. I met with travel partners from around the world. We’re ready for a “Conscious Comeback.” We’re ready to go. But we want travel to be better than ever. We want to make sure that we are making

My husband and I got our first dose of vaccine this Friday! Yay! I couldn’t believe the nerves I felt prior to getting it – and the absolute relief I felt afterwards. Hope! And, the Pat Benetar song “Hit Me with Your Best Shot” has been playing through my mind all weekend. The numbers are

Hello there! What a magnificent week we’re having in Ottawa. Spring has sprung, the grass is riz; I wonder where the birdies is. The trees aren’t quite budding yet (this picture was taken during a walk along the Ottawa River last Saturday), but they are starting, and hope and new possibilities are in the air.

Happy Easter! Happy Passover! Happy Holi! Happy Long Weekend! As Ontario enters another 30 days of lockdown (ugh), we wait for vaccines to become even wider spread through the population. We’re getting there in Canada. My friends in Israel have been doing amazing work with over 69% of their population fully vaccinated – see Israel, and friends

Hello, hello! The world is opening up. Can you feel it? There’s a new optimism in the air. It comes with vaccines finally coming to Canada (my Mom got her first shot last night in Newfoundland). Of course, the spring weather and warmer air certainly helps. But – overall, it finally feels that the hope has

Ciao, Ciao. I attended a virtual travel show with Visit Italy this week. Wow. I met with some terrific hotels, villas, Ferrari and Lamborghini touring companies, food and wine companies that handle everything from Truffle hunting to olive oil tasting to pasta and risotto cooking classes, destination management companies, and more. There is no doubt

We seem to be finally turning a corner with this CoVid thing – can you feel it? We passed the one-year mark. One year ago today, we didn’t realize how abruptly and wildly our lives would change. But now, vaccines are well underway in the US, and they are finally coming in Canada. While we’re