When it comes to long international flights, you can never have too many entertainment options. Movies on your seatback TV? Check. Your favorite tunes queued up on your phone? Can’t leave home without ’em. But there’s nothing like a really good book to while a few hours away. I surveyed the staff at SmarterTravel and […]
Canada plans to ban single-use plastics as early as 2021
Canada has joined the EU in banning single-use plastics, with a goal to implement a ban by 2021. Canada plans to introduce a ban on single-use plastic by 2021. Image by Getty Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday that single-use plastics such as plastic bags, straws, cutlery, plates, and stir sticks will be […]
Brooklyn now has a street named after the Notorious B.I.G.
A street in Brooklyn has been renamed in honour of the Notorious B.I.G., the late rapper who grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood. Fans gather to see the official naming of Christopher Wallace Way. Image by Mychal Watts/Getty The Notorious B.I.G. (real name Christopher Wallace) was one of music’s most compelling figures and widely lauded […]
Portrait of Ireland
This April I had the pleasure of returning to West County Kerry, the rural towns my mother’s family came from. An unforgiving but stunningly beautiful land of rock and sea, mountains and mist; the people are warm and open, the sheep are plentiful. It was lambing season, and every field was dotted with babies under […]