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Travel: My Top Five Favourite Destinations and Hope for the Future

Perfectly still Lake Louise in Banff National Park, Alberta Ever since I finished school and started working full time, my jobs have involved at least some degree of travel.  This has afforded me some opportunities and insights, and I wanted to share some of that. I've looked back on the past ten years and, since 1 January 2009, I've gone on a few dozen trips, for work purposes, for vacations, and in spending free time during work trips (i.e. weekends during multi-week conferences, extra days at personal cost, or days where you land the day before your meeting).  Destinations have included (not counting cities that I simply transited through or spent very little time in): Switzerland Geneva (no less than thirteen times) Bern Montreux (at least five times; a personal favourite) Lausanne (three times) Luzern (also spelled Lucerne) Yverdon-les-Bains France Paris (no less than eight times) Arras Vimy Ridge Netherlands The Hague (twice, with more to