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June 24, 2018

How to Pack for Eastern Europe

I'm spending two months in Eastern Europe. Find out what I packed for the office, hiking, beach days, and the rain.
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  • I recently picked up this fun little headband made from a strip of black fabric with a flexible wire inside. It's perfect for travel when your hair is messy, dirty, and maybe still has some salt and sand from your last swim in the ocean. You can wear this headband in so many ways, from tying it under your hair to creating a cute little turban knot in the front. I've even wrapped it around a pony tail for a more interesting twist on a basic style before. It's versatile and small which means it gets my travel seal of approval.
  • Did you know air travel is one of the highest carbon emission-creating forms of travel out there? This fact prompted me to look up all the ways I could cut my carbon emissions on my many trips. Check out my latest blog post for my round up of tips to help you be a more eco-friendly nomad!
  • Back in Montreal this week and couldn't be happier to take a pause to catch up with friends and family over the long weekend and celebrate Easter at church. I have the habit of loading up my rest time with other tasks like spring cleaning and getting my inbox to zero, but we'll see how it goes. Happy Easter weekend everyone! 🐣🍫
  • Plovdiv is the European Capital of Culture for 2019 and Kapana, the artsiest neighbourhood in the city, is a great place to celebrate. Cute cafés, winding streets, bright street art -- it has everything you'd expect from any international artsy block. Kapana actually means "trap" because the streets are so windy and confusing, you can barely find your way out. There were no building regulations at the time, so artisans and merchants just built over and around one another. At one time, the neighbourhood was only inhabited by craftspeople, so the streets bore the names of the trades of the merchants on each of them.
  • If you ever get a chance to visit Plovdiv, definitely check out the Free Plovdiv Walking Tour, which happens daily at 2pm (at 11am too in the summer). It was great to tour the main attractions of the city with a knowledgeable guide and an ecclectic mix of tourists. One of our stops was the ancient roman Philippopolis theatre, where I learned that amphitheatre only designates full-circle shapes, which means I've been wrongly calling half-circle theatres amphitheatres my whole life.
  • You know I collect souvenirs sparingly, but last Friday, I went to my very first Bulgarian concert in a club and I had such a good time, I had to buy the band's t-shirt on my way out. Oratnitza blends traditional Bulgarian music with modern electronic sounds to create something I'd never heard before. I just added some videos to my highlights, so make sure you play them with sound on!
  • If there is one city that knows how to layer, it's Plovdiv. The city's architecture can be described as centuries and centuries of conquerors building on top of past ruins. The result is a series of strata telling a rich and tumultuous history. The city has done a good job of integrating roman ruins and Bulgarian revival styles into the contemporary city scape, although still so much of the archeological ruins remain buried below shops and government buildings. It's an understandable predicament...How much can you interrupt daily life and the businesses of the city centre to restore relics the past? As a result, only a small portion of structures like the Philippopolis Stadium (pictured here) are uncovered, but they make for cool photo ops nonetheless!
  • When I travel to Bulgaria for work, most of my time is spent in the Sofia office. However, there is also an office in Plovdiv, the second largest city in Bulgaria and also the oldest (continuously inhabited) city in Europe. I'm so pleased work took me to Plovdiv this time because it's an incredibly charming and history-rich city -- 6,000 years of history to be more precise. The city was originally a Thracian settlement but at different times throughout history was invaded by Persians, Greeks, Celts, Romans, Goths, Huns, Bulgars, Slavs, Rus people, Crusaders, and Turks. No wonder it's the most diverse city in Bulgaria!

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