That Traveling Couple

The CN Tower Restaurant: A Tourist’s View

In an earlier entry, I wrote about the CN tower. I wrote that if you’re going to the CN tower, it’s either to do the tourist thing and see the exhibitions, or to hit the restaurant that sits at the tower’s top. This post is about that restaurant.
Where to start when discussing the CN Tower’s [...]

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The CN Tower Experience

For some reason, alot of the local Torontonian’s we met during our stay in Toronto didn’t have much respect for the old CN Tower.
Though famous world wide, we constantly met locals seemingly ambivalent towards the poor tower. They either:
1. Had flat out never even been there.
2. Hadn’t been there in forever and had no desire [...]

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Los Arcos Snorkeling Puerto Vallarta

Let’s start this one with some geography.
Los Arcos is the famous rock structure that sits out in the water, not too far off the shore at the south end of Puerto Vallarta’s bay.
It’s most famous for it’s snorkeling tours, so to discuss Los Arcos is to discuss it’s snorkeling.
Getting to Los Arcos on one of [...]

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Our Puerto Vallarta ATV Tour

It’s hard to write a post about ATV tours in Vallarta because as you’ll see if you’re looking to book one. There are a huge number of tours that go to quite a few different places and in combination with quite a few other activities.
So rather than writing about any individual tour I’ll give you [...]

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La Cruz Yacht Club Puerto Vallarta

If you’re looking for a fun day out that’s pretty quiet, a good combination of a scenic spot, a decent meal at a cool restaurant, and a leisurely stroll around a different kind of blue water in the Vallarta area, the La Cruz yacht club can certainly satisfy, even if you have no interest at [...]

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Sweet Things Bakery/Cafe Bucerias

Unless you have either been to Bucerias before and gotten a recommendation, or been paying particular attention as you walk down Lazaro Cardenas Blvd, you’d probably never even know Sweet Things Bakery existed. And that would be a shame. The title of this post was going to be: Sweet Things Bakery/Cafe/Restaurant/Awesome.
Walking down Lazaro Cardenas, towards [...]

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Isla Rio Cuale Puerto Vallarta

Isla Rio Cuale is a highly mysterious place.
Despite being located in the heart of downtown Puerto Vallarta, it can NOT be found on Google Maps. You look for this place… and it’s not there.
So for the purpose of putting some decent information out into cyberspace on where Isla Rio Cuale actually is and how to [...]

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El Torito: Watch UFC In Puerto Vallarta!

I’m a big UFC fan, and when we arrived in Puerto Vallarta, I spend considerable time, alot of it unsuccessful, searching for a place in the town that I could be sure showed the monthly events.
It was this that lead me to, finally, come across El Torito Sports Bar. But whether you’re a UFC fan, [...]

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