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Featured on lacartemag.com on June 7, 2016 Why Twenty Valley should be on wine drinkers’ travel lists by DIANA BALLON Twenty Valley, home to country roads that link the small towns of Grimsby, Beamsville, Vineland, Jordan and St. Catharines on the south shore of Lake Ontario, is a region that many consider a hidden gem — Continue Reading
Think of Tucson as a basin with steep edges. An urban desert, defined less by its architecture than by its natural beauty, benign climate, blue skies and the dazzling interplay of light and shadow.
Featured in West Jet Magazine, February 2017 Get hitched in Antigua, Turks and Caicos, Maui or on Florida’s Amelia Island FEBRUARY 8, 2017 – BY DIANA BALLON There’s an allure to getting hitched on an island. What could be more romantic than saying “I do” in a secluded, seaside ceremony? If an island wedding is your Continue Reading
Once the flurry of engagement parties, rehearsal dinners and wedding activities is over, it’s time for the honeymoon. Here are four romantic island destinations to fit the needs and preferences of newlywed couples.
Featured in Dreamscapes, Fall/Winter 2015. The 274-room Occidental Grand Nuevo Vallarta is located on Bahía de Banderas, a beautiful stretch of sand on the Pacific coast. Behind me people are chatting and splashing around in the pool. And in front, there’s the ocean at my feet. A soft late afternoon sun shines down on my Continue Reading
Featured on vacay.ca, November 9, 2015. Viamede Resort is a favourite with people and pets. PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO — A resort holiday usually means stealthily heading out the door with our suitcases—leaving our dog Juno lying gloomily on her day bed in the corner of the living room with her sitter. I tell the kids to Continue Reading
Featured on airmiles.ca, October 2015. How to be a traveler not a tourist in these idyllic islands. The holiday begins midair, with that first glimpse of neon turquoise. Turks & Caicos Islands (TCI), located south of the Bahamas and east of Cuba, are famous for those azure tones – providing the perfect contrast to powdery Continue Reading
Featured in Canadian Cycling Magazine, October 2015. The prime road routes and trails of Ontario’s Peterborough and the Kawarthas aren’t well-known, but that will change. We followed our guides on a rainy day in June. We were travelling over rolling hills in Ontario’s Kawarthas on road bikes against soft winds and under grey skies. Grazing Continue Reading
The difference between the breakup of a relationship with an intimate partner and platonic friend is that one is recognized and one isn’t.
Featured in Just for Canadian Doctors, Fall 2015. Norah Rogers and I meet in the parlour room of the Waring House, a country inn on the edge of Picton in Prince Edward County. She arrives slightly out of breath, coming straight from her private practice as a family doctor in town. But Rogers is no Continue Reading