The Best Bites of Basque Country
Food plays a crucial role in travel because it offers a sensory connection to a place’s culture, history, and traditions. When people travel, they seek authentic experiences, and local cuisine provides a direct way to engage with a destination’s…
An Afternoon with Halfdan Pedersen
This spring Onward Travel brought a group of AIGA members from across the United States to Iceland for Spring B'Reykjavik, our third annual design-focused trip centered around the Icelandic design festival called DesignMarch.
One of the highlights…
Reminiscing about Amore in Italy: Tuscany
In October we travelled to Tuscany for two back-to-back tours with Chef Jenna of Amore Trattoria in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We visited charming Tuscan villages: Cortona, Greve in Chianti, Montalcino, Bagno Vignoni, Siena... and savored the absolutely…
Molly’s Highlights from Cornell Hotel School’s HEC Conference
A few days after getting from home Spring B’Reykjavik, our design-tour of Iceland with AIGA, I re-packed my suitcase and headed to Cornell University for a long weekend. Every year, the Cornell Hotel School hosts Hotel Ezra Cornell, a weekend…
Onward and upward, indeed!
Nearly three years ago, Kat and I founded Onward Travel with a simple website and a serious passion for travel. We’d grown up observing our mother and grandmother host culinary tours all over Europe and the U.S. (with fabulous partners like…