Travel
  • 5 years 3 months ago

Weekend trips to take to with your housemates

As beautiful as Kingston is, it can be easy to get a little stir crazy in such a small town. If you’re ever feeling restless or adventurous, taking a weekend road trip with your housemates can be the perfect cure. Create some unforgettable memories while discovering the great wealth of restaurants, museums, shops and events the cities in this sample of possible destinations have to offer.Continue...
  • 5 years 4 months ago

Vancouver-based rideshare start-up looks to break into Ontario, Quebec markets

While most ride-sharing ventures focus on short-distance trips, one start-up has come to Kingston to change the nature of the business.Continue...

Overlooking the city of Kathmandu from Swayambhunath Temple.
  • 5 years 8 months ago

Never ending peace and love

When I first set out to solidify my travel itinerary for the month of May, Nepal was not even in the top 10 on my list of hopeful destinations.Continue...

  • 5 years 10 months ago

News in Brief

Queen’s approves revisions to travel reimbursement and expense policy

Effective March 20, Queen’s has revised its policy around university-related business travel.

The existing Queen’s...Continue...
  • 5 years 10 months ago

What happens in Punta...

Due to the nature of the experiences, the authors of the following stories have requested to remain anonymous.Continue...
  • 5 years 11 months ago

Appreciating the modern: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

After I booked a trip to Copenhagen for Reading Week only two weeks in advance, I kept the spontaneity going and didn’t plan anything ahead of time, with one exception: the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.Continue...
  • 6 years 2 months ago

Trekking through Mongolia

Before leaving on our trek, my dad and I were constantly asked “Why Mongolia?”Continue...
  • 6 years 3 months ago

Anyone's an outsider

Before I was born, both my parents had separate love affairs with the city of Paris.Continue...
  • 6 years 3 months ago

Thanksgiving by the dashboard view

While other families spent the Thanksgiving weekend seated at a table, my dad and I sat together in a car and drove 3,500 kilometres.Continue...
  • 6 years 4 months ago

Following my mother’s footsteps to Mount Everest, 29 years later

As I stood on the upper flanks of Kala Patthar – a mountain in the Nepalese Himalayas –at nearly 18,500 ft above sea level, gasping for air, I thought of my mother who traced her way up my exact path 29 years before me.Continue...

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