On our recent trip to Greece, we transited through Athens. I always knew we would fly home from Athens, and would spend the final night there, but after miscalculating which day there was a flight from Malta to Greece, we also ended up with a pit stop at the start of the Greek portion of the holiday. With the flights booked, we were supposed to land in Athens at midnight and had a mid-afternoon flight the next day to Rhodes. After briefly contemplating sleeping on the airpo

In my mid-twenties I spent almost a year living in Mexico. It was the first time I'd moved away from home. For that reason, Mexico will always have a piece of my heart. I was not in tourist Mexico, but rather lived in a small town that most people wouldn't have heard of. As someone who spoke no Spanish at the time, it was a leap. I had to learn how to do everything ... grocery shop, have water and gas delivered, find a doctor, mail a letter from the post office, drive a

My return flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina last winter would take me through Santiago, Chile and Atlanta, before arriving in Toronto. I booked the ticket because it was a great deal but realized afterward that I was flying out of the downtown airport, called Aeroparque. I hadn't even realized that Aeroparque flew internationally, thinking it was domestic flights only. My kiddo left a few hours before me, through Ezeiza the main international airport, taking off without a

In late January 2020 I booked a trip to Italy, for the month of May. This was going to be my first big trip in years. I don't typically book non-refundable hotels but given that the trip was just around the corner, I figured, what could go wrong? So that didn't work out. By the end of March, it was apparent we would not be going because no one, worldwide, was going anywhere. The airline gave me a travel credit, and I sheepishly reached out to the hotel. Given the global n