Niagara-on-the-Lake offers many fun events all year long. The summer brings crowds to the local "fruit" festivals starting with the Strawberry Festival, the Cherry Festival and the big (like, take over the whole downtown, big) peach festival in August. The town is nestled in a wonderful agricultural area surrounded by fruit farms and vineyards galore.

It happens all the time with Overseas Adventure Travel. I start out expecting to write about the trip itself – in this case, Sicily’s Ancient Landscapes & Timeless Traditions – and I end up writing about all the things that are not on the itinerary – what OAT refers to as Learning and Discovery. Sure, I wanted to focus on …

I imagined that a story about my trip to Ibiza would be about the constant party of hedonistic abandon the island’s reputation led me to expect. Instead, while that scenario may still play out occasionally in Ibiza, mostly I saw couples in their late twenties, early thirties – often with children – and some older couples and singles of both …