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Finding happiness in a small Costa Rican town

Karen Asp

Costa Rica

Karen Asp gets off the well-worn tourist routes in Costa Rica and discovers a charming town in a country known as the happiest in Latin America and where people live longer thanks to their healthy lif...
Towns make Mexico magical

Athena Lucero

Mexico

Writer Athena Lucero looks at the tiny towns that make Mexico a magical place to visit and explore - towns where locals welcome tourists with open arms and make them feel at home.
Medellín is a state-of-the-art city

Marc Atchison

Colombia

On a visit to Medellín, Marc Atchison discovers this beauty is truly at art capital of Colombia.

Brazil's Santos is a Heavenly Place to Visit

Marc Atchison

Brazil

SANTOS, BRAZIL - For a coffee town, Santos really proves to be a tourist’s cup of tea. Not as well known as some of Brazil’s other major cities, this sleepy town offers vacationers beaches that riva...
L.A.-like Monterrey is the ‘star’ of Mexico

Athena Lucero

Mexico

MONTERREY — With the seventh largest public plaza in the world, a meandering river walk, world-class museums, an outrageous culinary scene, Mexico’s best universities and medical schools, the hip su...
Medellín Hotel Offers a View to the Future

Marc Atchison

Colombia

MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA - Agnes Garcia takes a long sip of her vintage French wine before responding to a question so many others have asked: “Why did you open a hotel in a country and city, both of which...

Archive by author: Gale BeebyReturn

A former award-winning editor at the Toronto Star, Gale has travelled extensively throughout Europe, Asia and North America and will share her unique style of writing and photography with TraveLife readers. Gale’s favourite places I the world include India, China, Thailand, Paris, Scotland and London.

Riding high into the Andes

Gale Beeby |

Gale Beeby hops aboard the famed Andean Explorer train and heads high into Peru's Andes to visit and enjoy beautiful Lake Titicaca

It's time to get back to Acapulco

Gale Beeby |

ACAPULCO, MEXICO - People of a certain age might recall a 1962 Timex watch commercial which featured one of this city’s legendary divers jumping off the 40-metre-high La Quebrada cliffs into the choppy surf with the company’s timepiece attached to his wrist.