[caption id="attachment_5154" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="photo credit: ontarioplaques.com"][/caption] Only a few more days to gear up for one of Canada's most historic festivals. The apple festival. A community in northern Ontario called  Iroquois is celebrating a piece of history that very few Canadians know about. It will be held on September 17th. It's a festival about celebrating a farmer ...

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="461" caption="Source: Spa Balnea"][/caption] What's better than spending a day relaxing? That would be spending your day relaxing at the spa. Although I'm not a huge spa fan (my average is once every two years), I do enjoy the experience when I'm there. This year, I decided to try out a spa everyone seems to be talking about in Montreal: Spa Balnea. Spa Balnea is lo ...

Since my friend landed a job in marketing at a major airline company, I, as her friend, benefit from some of its perks. Every now and then, she’ll get tickets for events in the Montreal area and so, on Wednesday, four of us had VIP treatment at the Sean Paul concert at the Festival des Montgolfieres in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu. This hot-air balloon fest is the biggest of its kind in Canada. It attracts over 40 ...

Source: www.sru.eduI, admittedly take it for granted that my health is great and that's the main reason I can travel the world carefree. You can always find money, but your health must come along with it to enjoy countries around the world. To increase my chances of staying healthy as I travel from country to country, I invest quite some time in exercising. That's why I'm dedicating this post to interesting ...

During the summer months, I usually try to plan something for every weekend. Long weekends are more often the most planned ones. It’s only because our summers in Canada are usually very short, so every weekend counts. But this year, more or less I have winged it and I actually kind of liked doing it. It’s just seems more relaxing and less things to think about. So this past long weekend, my family, boyfrien ...

With summer half way done, I realized this week that I didn't enjoy the festivals in my city as much as I should have. I missed out on 3 festivals I wanted to experience: the Jazz festival, Complètement Cirque, and Festivalissimo. Why? I can't really say because I've been so busy but I don't know what I've been doing! Anyway, I decided that it's never too late to start enjoying my summer . With only 3 month ...

This is a very proud moment for Off-Track Backpacking! Our content finally moved from online to paper this month as an article we wrote on Buenos Aires got featured in Cleo Magazine in Australia. The topic? Our best party spot. It's always nice to see your own article in a magazine. Enjoy the read! ...

I don't know how I should begin to describe this phenomenal concert! When I first bought my tickets for this concert almost two years ago,  I didn't have grandiose expectations. Obviously I was expecting it to be good. It's Bono for crying out loud. But never had I imagined what I saw. The first adventure of the day was getting to the stadium. It was a temporary stadium that was built especially for this co ...

[caption id="attachment_4774" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="photo credit: hoardedordinaries.wordpress.com"][/caption] Back in the day when I was in high school, I took a mini school trip to Boston. Though a long the way one of our stops was visiting Salem. Salem is a small city with only a population of 40,000 that is located in the state of Massachusetts. But what is so significant about this once ...

There is nothing better than some spring skiing: sunny and mild days, fresh snow and just plain fun! At this time of the year, most people start to feel impatient with the end of cold weather and the snow melting. Although I am one of those people, I still get one last chance to enjoy my favorite winter sport without freezing my butt! [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="398" caption="Source: http://ww ...