Welcome/Bienvenue!

This blog is dedicated to my dear friend: travelling. I absolutely love everything about travelling. I love the packing and the unpacking and the repacking that requires you to sit on your suitcase even if you only bought, like, two things. I love the part when the plane goes really fast before takeoff and I love the free pretzels. I love getting the aisle seat. As a teenager…er, young child, I loved the horrified look on fellow travellers’ faces when my sister and I would attach a massive fake hair piece to distinguish our big black rolly suitcase from the next. We named her “Tufty.” She was blond.

Now living at home with my parents in Toronto, the extent of my travels at the moment is walking downstairs to get the dog’s food. So I’m going to dig up some stories, and live vicariously through myself. And yes, I would argue, that is possible. Maybe they’ll take you back, too.

The A to YYZ…and back blog is an alphabetical catalogue of some of the coolest places I’ve been to. Once I get to Z, I hope to start again at A. But it’s also a bulletin board for anything travel related I feel like writing about.

I haven’t exactly been around the world but everywhere I have visited has been memorable for some reason or another. It is the seeing of new places and the meeting of new people that has really got me hooked.

So, please buckle your seatbelt. And if you get bored, try pretending, as realistically as possible, to use the air sickness bag located in the seat pocket in front of you. I once taught two unaccompanied minors sitting next to me to do it, and I think they were better people for it.

Thanks for reading.

Alexis