Full days at the Aussie Open

Alright, so where were we? You think you know who will win the Australian Open, but you still want to see it with your own two eyes, so you have bought a plane ticket to Melbourne and sat through that long, long journey. ’Twas long, but not that bad because...
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Posted on November 2, 2015

A pleasurable plane ride to Oz

If you had 24+ hours to spend on a flight, what would you do? According to the Google search I completed just now, the quickest flight from where I live, in Montreal, Canada, to the site of the Australian Open, in Melbourne, Australia, lasts 24:43. So let’s run with that...
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Posted on October 19, 2015

Welcome to the Big Apple

It’s the city so nice that the Gods named it twice. Or better yet, they say that a (Big) apple a day keeps the doctor away. Forget the lame puns, sure, but the point is that right now all eyes of the tennis world are on New York and will...
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Posted on September 15, 2015

Tennis at Wimbledon: the many traditions of the Championships

I’ll be the first to admit that maybe the hook shouldn’t have come this late, no. After Queen Elizabeth II and Shakespeare and the Beatles, Wimbledon will be the real reason why tennis fans would visit England at this time of the year. The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet...
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Posted on June 15, 2015

Sightseeing in England: Shakespeare and the Beatles

There are many, many reasons to visit England and we continue our series to examine a trio of such reasons. Last time, I examined the United Kingdom monarchy and the fact that you could visit to England in the hopes of seeing Queen Elizabeth II and the new Royal Baby...
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Posted on June 1, 2015