Vancouver does not reveal itself from a hotel window or a tourist map. It is a city that asks you to move through it: along the seawall at first light, through the covered stalls of Granville Island in the rain, up into the North Shore mountains when the weather breaks clear...

Québec City is not quite like anywhere else in North America. It is the only fortified city north of Mexico, a UNESCO World Heritage Site where 400 years of French history are still visible at street level, and a place that produces, in summer and winter alike...