Seville in the Sun: What to Do and What to Wear on Your Visit

30/8/2023

This gorgeous, sun-soaked Spanish city is the perfect cozy escape.

Dramatic, ornate stone arches set against a blue sky.

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What does the perfect holiday abroad look like to you? Does it conjure up images of sun-soaked coastal spots? Maybe it involves getting in touch with your inner art connoisseur, as one can expect with a tour of Barcelona’s famed art museums. Personally, we're partial to cozy locales. And one spot we haven’t been able to stop thinking about is the charming city of Seville, Spain.

Below are a few attractions we highly recommend, especially for first-time travellers, as well as some packing tips to keep in mind.

How To See Nova Scotia's "Drowned Forest" Beach

14/8/2023

The Hawk on Cape Sable Island is Nova Scotia's southernmost point and home to its most unusual beach.

I visited The Hawk as part of a press trip in conjunction with the TMAC conference.
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Stumps, seaweed, stones, sand, and seawater... That's The Hawk in a nutshell!

When you go as far south as you possibly can in Nova Scotia and the pavement ends, you’ll find yourself at a quiet beach known locally as “The Hawk.” This isn’t your average Maritime beach with soft sand and smooth pebbles. The shores here are filled with thousands of fossilized tree stumps.

The Hawk (most likely named after a schooner washed ashore in the 1800s) is located on Cape Sable Island. No, that’s not the same place as Sable Island, famously home to wild horses. Cape Sable Island sits between Yarmouth and Shelburne and is the southernmost part of the province. There isn’t much in the way of horses in the area, but birds are a different story. Bird watchers love this beach, and The Hawk is part of the Cape Sable Important Bird Area.

However, the wildest thing of all are the fossilized tree stumps, part of a 1500-year-old drowned forest.

9 Travel Accessories That You Really, REALLY Don't Need

5/8/2023

Sure, it's hard to resist cool travel stuff but these are nine things you really don't need weighing down your bag.

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Vanessa sits wearing a white safari shirt and a blue scarf on a rattan deck chair on the board of a ship.

Trust me, you don't need a dozen scarves and safari shirts in order to travel. In fact, you'll probably be happier without them. I wore this combination exactly once in my life!

Within my travel-loving soul, there lies a contradiction.

I love packing light. Like, I really, really love it. You know that joke "How do you know if someone travels carryon? They'll tell you!"? It was written about me. I not only love packing light. I equally love being insufferable about it. Oh, you just took one suitcase for your resort vacation? Well I used one backpack for a six week round the world trip and half the space was taken up with camping gear.

Like I said, I'm insufferable.

But I also love, and I mean LOVE, specialty travel gear. The more task and trip specific, the better. I am obsessed with travel supply catalogues and I haven't met a packing cube that I don't love. But the truth of the matter is that much of this stuff is, well, how do I put this? It's garbage. It's poorly constructed mass produced stuff that preys on our fears of being unprepared, the uncertain nature of the open road, and the shame that comes when you don't keep pace with fast fashion. All of this stuff has weighed down my bag at one point or another and I am here to tell you that you don't need it. Any of it.

Seville in the Sun: What to Do and What to Wear on Your Visit

This gorgeous, sun-soaked Spanish city is the perfect cozy escape.

How To See Nova Scotia's "Drowned Forest" Beach

The Hawk on Cape Sable Island is Nova Scotia's southernmost point and home to its most unusual beach.

I visited The Hawk as part of a press trip in conjunction with the TMAC conference.
This post contains affiliate links, which means if you make a purchase we may get a small commission.

9 Travel Accessories That You Really, REALLY Don't Need

Sure, it's hard to resist cool travel stuff but these are nine things you really don't need weighing down your bag.

Note that some links in this post may be affiliate links, which means we are paid a small commission should you make a purchase.

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Seville in the Sun: What to Do and What to Wear on Your Visit

This gorgeous, sun-soaked Spanish city is the perfect cozy escape.

How To See Nova Scotia's "Drowned Forest" Beach

The Hawk on Cape Sable Island is Nova Scotia's southernmost point and home to its most unusual beach. I visited The Hawk as part of a press trip in conjunction with the TMAC conference. ​This post contains affiliate links, which means if you make a purchase we may get a small commission.

9 Travel Accessories That You Really, REALLY Don't Need

Sure, it's hard to resist cool travel stuff but these are nine things you really don't need weighing down your bag. ​Note that some links in this post may be affiliate links, which means we are paid a small commission should you make a purchase.

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The Hawk on Cape Sable Island is Nova Scotia's southernmost point and home to its most unusual beach.

I visited The Hawk as part of a press trip in conjunction with the TMAC conference.
This post contains affiliate links, which means if you make a purchase we may get a small commission.

Sure, it's hard to resist cool travel stuff but these are nine things you really don't need weighing down your bag.

Note that some links in this post may be affiliate links, which means we are paid a small commission should you make a purchase.