Tomato Puree Recipe: A Tomato Sauce Essential
While many other ingredients may form the robust and intricate flavours of your tomato sauce, without a good tomato puree base your tomato sauce will be lacking.
How—and Why—to Stay Healthy When Travelling!
If you want to make a lasting impact halfway across the planet, staying healthy is imperative. A sick or injured volunteer is no help to anyone
By Fina Scroppo
Before You Go
Any kind of travelling can st...
India’s Grit is Part of its Travel Charm
On the great subcontinent in the Indian Ocean, the tropical climate and varied hygiene practices bring unfamiliar risks to the average traveller
No doubt, both India's charm and chaos can intoxicate travellers...
Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite
An old cliche takes on new modern meaning as bed bugs proliferate around the world
Once upon a time, “sleep tight, don’t let the bedbugs bite” was an adorable bedtime rhyme. But in recent years, the characters...
Backpacking first aid kit list
Build Your Own First-Aid Kit
Article by Fina Scroppo
Plan for the worse and hope for the best. But always, always! take a first-aid kit
There's one thing Suhanki Raviandran never leaves home without: a first...
Avoiding Motion Sickness
Whether on planes, trains, automobiles or boats, motion sickness can turn the dreamiest of escapes into a bloody nightmare
My husband, Mike, and I enjoy travelling. But before I can book a destination and plan...
Bring on the Heat, Just Not All At Once
Access to long sunny days and tropical warmth is a big draw for the Canadian traveller. The key is to know when to say when!
When Scott Chilton went to Costa Rica a couple of months ago, he was looking forward...
Packing Medication
Travelling with a boatload of pills for your pre-existing condition? Here's how to do it and not end up behind a set of foreign bars
From a very young age, Will Pocock, now 29, has dealt with constant ear infe...
Scorpions and snakes and spiders—Oh my!
Leslie Anthony has been bitten by snakes—“thousands of times.”
Kate Jackson has had her share of brushes with venomous reptiles. And Tom Mason has been stung several times by scorpions. Some travellers venturi...
What To Do If You Have the Flu
Influenza has been a human scurge for centuries, and likely always will be. The question is: what can you do about it?