The plan a lot of us carry Say your flight home from Lisbon is cancelled and you land in Vancouver a day late. Under Canada’s rules, a large airline can owe you $1,000 for that. So a lot of us travel with a plan: if the airline lets us down, we’ll claim it back. The…

For years, the 90-day rule in Europe was enforced by a human being with a rubber stamp.

Flights get cancelled, luggage gets delayed, plans fall apart, and most seasoned travellers handle these things without too much drama.

One question rarely comes up when people plan a trip: how much energy do I have? Think of day 18 of a six-week trip, after a run of busy days, when the novelty has worn off and the fatigue has set in.

You can read 500 reviews and still end up in the wrong apartment.

There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that only travellers know. You come home from two weeks vacation, and yet you need a few days to recover.