Bianca Bujan is an award-winning travel writer with bylines in various print and online publications, including Lonely Planet, The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, WestJet Magazine, Montecristo, TripSavvy, BC Living and others. She is also the Editor of WestCoast Families magazine and was a contributing writer for the North Shore Foodie book.

Trips don’t have to be full of booze and decadent foods, though that’s often on the menu! If you’ve considered a wellness trip recently, you’re in good company. Wellness travellers took 830 million vacations, worldwide, in 2017 alone. Every year, that number ticks upwards as retreats get more creative to lure you away from life’s

It’s the dead of winter, and as Canadians hunker down from coast to coast, there’s one lucky group of them that have their mittens holstered and toques in storage: the snowbirds. Every year, thousands of Canadians make their way to warmer climates, often spending the bulk of their winter salting margarita rims instead of sidewalks.