Every October, Upper Canada Village in Morrisburg closes for a whole month for regular visits only to open in the evenings for lit pumpkins. About 7,000 handcrafted pumpkins are put together for a colourful light show with huge pumpkin sculptures. Read more
I’ve been to aviation museums in Ontario to the likes of Trenton and Ottawa, and those are mighty impressive. Ones in Quebec, even in major cities like Montreal and Quebec City, are much smaller. The Air Defence Museum in Bagotville, Read more
Route: Oslo to LongyearbyenPlane: A320-200Date: 1 July 2025Price: $440 ComfortThe seats are exactly the same as regular economy, or SAS Go, so it’s more of a premium economy product than a business class product. The first 11 rows were marked Read more
The fortress-like prison in Philadelphia have 30-foot walls that go underground. Built in 1830, it was the world’s first purpose-built prison meant to deprive people of freedom as a form of punishment. Jails before this were just holding pens for Read more
Jewish Americans landed in New Netherlands before it became New York and built their first synagogue in the country there in 1730. So, logically, New York should have been the home to this museum rather than Philadelphia. Early Jewish settlers Read more
An incredible collection of western European modern art from the likes of Prendergast, Cézanne, and Van Gogh ended up in Philadelphia. I loved the giant pointillism painting Models by Seurat which featured a slice of the famous A Sunday Afternoon Read more
Route: Oslo to ZürichPlane: E190-E2Date: Jul 13, 2025Price: $1,811.96 (including onward flights to Montreal and Ottawa, same price as premium economy) ComfortEuropean business class doesn’t get wider seats or more legroom, it’s just the regular economy seat with a neighbour-free Read more
The country’s third longest Foucault pendulum is in Philadelphia‘s Franklin Institute. It proves that the Earth is round and turns on an axis. The Pendulum appears to change direction while in reality the Earth is the one spinning and the Read more