• KAMEHAMEHA THE GREAT: HAWAII’S FIRST KING

    Exploring the life and times of Kamehameha the Great often enriches our sundrenched holidays on Hawaii Is ...

    Exploring the life and times of Kamehameha the Great often enriches our sundrenched holidays on Hawaii Island… A lifelike statue in little Kapa’au town honours this extraordinary king. Heading west, w ...

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  • GOING WITH THE FLOW IN SOUTHERN FRANCE

    When Mother Nature opens her floodgates, all you can do is go with the flow. Pre-Covid, my husband and I ...

    When Mother Nature opens her floodgates, all you can do is go with the flow. Pre-Covid, my husband and I were on a Viking European River cruise from Budapest to Amsterdam, but because of high water le ...

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  • ODE TO A CANADIAN WINTER

    Travel has lurched to a near standstill, and we've almost got used to it. Almost. For the grounded snowbi ...

    Travel has lurched to a near standstill, and we've almost got used to it. Almost. For the grounded snowbirds among us, the thought of not spending our winter under a palm tree in Mexico or in a golf c ...

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  • IF HORSES COULD FLY

    As the outfitter and his chief pilot shivered by their small fire, they could hear an angry bull moose gr ...

    As the outfitter and his chief pilot shivered by their small fire, they could hear an angry bull moose grunting and crashing through the bush 25 metres away. At the tail end of another 100 days of fly ...

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  • Adventure Awaits in Costa Rica

    “Costa Rica is different from any place I’ve ever visited,” says INSPIRED Magazine columnist Pat Nichol. ...

    “Costa Rica is different from any place I’ve ever visited,” says INSPIRED Magazine columnist Pat Nichol. Along with Collette and a group of fellow adventurers, Pat will travel to the Central American ...

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  • The Ageless Beauty of Women

    Societal standards for what makes a woman beautiful constantly shift: heavy black eyeliner in Ancient Egy ...

    Societal standards for what makes a woman beautiful constantly shift: heavy black eyeliner in Ancient Egypt; white powdered faces in the 18th century; or a curvy feminine shape in the 1950s. Over the ...

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  • Vic Sarin: The Art of the Possible

    “My whole journey has been to experience life and I don’t know of any other profession as rich as mine th ...

    “My whole journey has been to experience life and I don’t know of any other profession as rich as mine that allows you to do that. I’ve travelled the world a million times over and lived in so many pl ...

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  • Reboot - October 2017

    Barries Webster relocated to Victoria from Winnipeg after a multi-faceted analytical chemistry career. Lu ...

    Barries Webster relocated to Victoria from Winnipeg after a multi-faceted analytical chemistry career. Lucy Russell knew when she was 10 years old that home design was her passion. ...

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  • An Artist Never Dies

    When I found out one of my columnists had terminal stomach cancer and would not see the end of this year ...

    When I found out one of my columnists had terminal stomach cancer and would not see the end of this year the news hit me hard! I cried… The universe was playing a provocative game of pile-on, and it s ...

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