Perceptive Travel Blog

The first thing I noticed from my room in New York was not the skyline, but the bench. It sat beside the window overlooking Central Park, positioned perfectly enough to make the outside world feel optional. One morning, I sat there watching the cars and people below move through the city like tiny ants from the 12th floor. People hurried across intersections, taxis stopped an...

A church that is both a draw for tourists and the home of an active Church of Ireland congregation. The Gothic structure which is home to Roman Catholic parish in the heart of a border town which has seen more than its share of conflict during Ireland’s Troubles. What remains of a monastic church many centuries gone, now standing as part of a quiet neighborhood in a small tow...

If you are tired of crowds when you head into nature, you’re probably not venturing into the truly wild places. For nature travels that don’t involve stack-up RVs and lines of hikers posing for selfies, you need to take the other fork in the road or fly to the place you haven’t seen 1,000 social media posts about already. It’s difficult to find data on which places have the h...

The orientation instructions at our camp seemed sensible and straightforward until we got to the part about answering the dinner bell. “Please wait until a staff member knocks on your door and follow them to the dining area.” This seemed kind of silly, like they were amplifying the danger of African safaris. The second night as I and the guide stepped onto my deck after dinin...

KitchenFest? Is that a food festival then? While you’ll certainly have opportunities to enjoy food and drink during KitchenFest, it is not a food festival. The heart of KitchenFest is music. More about why there’s a kitchen connection in Kitchen’sFest’s name in a bit KitchenFest is about celebrating music, community, Gaelic culture, and hospitality all across Cape Breton. Cap...