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9 Comfy, Stylish Shoe Brands for Travel

January 6, 2025 by Molly Beauchemin Leave a Comment

People want functional footwear more than ever when they travel– but that doesn’t mean you should have to sacrifice style for comfort. Fortunately, these super comfy walking shoe brands make excellent sandals, sneakers, active footwear, booties, and trendy little strappy numbers that are both attractive and supportive. Below, we spotlight the best comfortable, stylish shoe […]

Filed Under: Travel Well Tagged With: airplane travel, gift guide

An Inside Look at Bota Bota, Montreal’s Gorgeous Floating Spa

January 3, 2025 by Molly Beauchemin Leave a Comment

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Bota Bota, spa-sur-l’eau, is a beautiful floating spa in Montreal, Quebec that is easily one of Canada’s coolest spas. This floating sauna, bathhouse, spa, and restaurant on the Saint Lawrence River is located inside of a renovated ferryboat docked in Montreal’s Old Port (Vieux-Port de Montréal). Since 2010, it’s been a serene Montreal bucket list […]

Filed Under: Travel Well Tagged With: Canadian cities, Relaxing getaway, spas

The 6 Best Birthday Cake Bakeries in Washington, D.C.

January 1, 2025 by Molly Beauchemin Leave a Comment

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Those looking for beautiful, unique, delicious birthday cakes in Washington, D.C. are often unsure of where to look, defaulting into a very “DC” mindset of assuming that all the cool bakeries are in other cities. This, however, is not true! Washington, D.C. has several amazing bakeries and cake shops for designing perfect birthday cakes for […]

Filed Under: Travel Well Tagged With: american cities, bakeries, birthday cake

15 ‘Emily in Paris’ Destinations You Can Visit in Real Life

January 1, 2025 by Molly Beauchemin Leave a Comment

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If the filming locations of Emily in Paris have done anything for the city, it’s to add some fun and spontaneity into the typical list of standard Parisian experiences that most visitors already have on their travel bucket lists.  Since the show debuted in the middle of the 2020 pandemic, it’s garnered cheeky praise for […]

Filed Under: Travel Well Tagged With: europe, Europe travel, european cities, Paris, pop culture

The 5 Best Poke Spots on O’ahu, Hawai’i

November 13, 2024 by Molly Beauchemin Leave a Comment

Poke really is one of the most delightful beach foods you can eat when visiting an island like O’ahu. Hawai’i is a great place to enjoy fresh, Pacific-caught fish, and poke honors that tradition here beautifully. Accordingly, this guide to the best poke on Oahu is culled from a long list of worthy contenders, as […]

Filed Under: Travel Well Tagged With: american cities, Hawaii, restaurants, Travel Guide

Cool Experience: Where To Dig-Your-Own Peanuts in Northern Virginia

October 23, 2024 by Molly Beauchemin Leave a Comment

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For those looking for a super unique, only-in-Virginia activity, digging your own peanuts is a bucket list experience. To that end, Hollin Farms in Delaplane, Virginia is one of the coolest and only places where you can easily dig your own peanuts in Virginia’s beautiful farm country– and with mountain views, to boot!  As we […]

Filed Under: Travel Well Tagged With: nature, peanut butter, virginia

9 Cool Things to Do in Cumberland, Maine

September 10, 2024 by Molly Beauchemin Leave a Comment

Cumberland, Maine is a lovely little idyllic town in Southern Maine that’s known for its peaceful recreation areas and luxuriously slow summer living. It’s full of charmingly expansive farmland, lush wooded areas, and welcoming small town New England heritage that makes it a nice place to, quite frankly, simply wander around.   Having a car is […]

Filed Under: Travel Well Tagged With: Maine, nature, small town america

The 10 Coolest Brunch Spots in Los Angeles

September 8, 2024 by Molly Beauchemin Leave a Comment

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Seemingly no one works in L.A.– or at least that’s what you’d think when regarding brunch crowds on any given day of the week. Brunch, moreover, is a whole experience in Los Angeles. Like brunch in New York, brunch in LA is a place where people like to linger, see, and be seen while dining […]

Filed Under: Travel Well Tagged With: american cities, California, los angeles, restaurants

5 Cool Places to Do Yoga in Denver

September 3, 2024 by Molly Beauchemin Leave a Comment

Denver’s yoga scene has evolved in recent years in tandem with the growing popularity of both the mindfulness movement and the modern public’s mounting interest in combining gentle exercise with immersive experiences in nature. By this, I mean that the best yoga in Denver often takes shape around nature and in community, from the sprawling […]

Filed Under: Cool Ideas, Travel Well Tagged With: colorado, yoga

17 Cool Things to Do in Asheville, North Carolina (A Charming Visitors Guide)

September 2, 2024 by Molly Beauchemin Leave a Comment

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The enduringly charming mountain town of Asheville, North Carolina is quickly emerging as one of the East Coast’s most loveable cities.  Nestled up in the NC smoky mountains in the middle of Western North Carolina, it’s a small city known for its quirk, its food, its hopping brewery and coffee shop scene, and above all: […]

Filed Under: Travel Well Tagged With: american cities, asheville, Travel Guide

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