Category Archive: Work & Travel

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Work & Travel

8 Tips For Finding A Job and Working in Canada

A Guide To Working In Canada Canada is a gap year hot spot with wild landscapes, fascinating wildlife, and its multicultural scene, making it a great country to explore. On top of that, Canada ranked as the second-best country in the world for 2018, just after Switzerland, a study published by the U.S. News. That makes it even easier to […]

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Work & Travel

WWOOFing Canada – Essential Tips From A Host

WWOOFers, I could write a book about my WWOOFing Canada experiences as a host. It has been over ten years since the first WWOOFer arrived at the ranch. I never kept track of the numbers that came through. Some WWOOFers stayed for a couple of months and came back the following year, with many of them I became friends. Others […]

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Yukon highways, iconic roads to adventure

Fast, wild and beautiful – a road trip on Yukon’s iconic highways. Get behind the wheel and get ready for a road trip of a lifetime, driving the Yukon highways. There is no better feeling than driving the northern highways and having the roads to yourself. Forget about traffic jams, busy roads and driving stress. Enjoy the fantastic scenery from […]

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Special Places

Yukon

Keno City Yukon, the end of The Silver Trail

(This article was published in the July 2020 edition of Globerovers Magazine) Here I am, back again, driving the Silver Trail gravel highway on the way to Keno City. A small dot on Google maps marks the existence of this tiny, nearly forgotten, old Gold Rush town in the mountains of central Yukon, northern Canada. Despite its name, Keno City […]

Outdoor Activities

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Wild Food

Yukon

Memorable Morel Mushroom Hunt in Central Yukon

Morel mushrooms are a delicacy and a sought after food in kitchens worldwide. My first introduction to morels I remember the time growing up in Switzerland when each spring my dad got on his old bicycle and went to some secret spot in the forest to harvest a bagful of morels. Centuries later I came across morels while hiking on […]