Canada still has a little pink in her cheeks after her recent Olympic success and she’s getting ready to woo the world again when the 2010 Paralympic Games get underway in Vancouver tomorrow. And with the daffodils up and the cherry blossoms already falling who wouldn’t want to come for a sleepover?
Apparently there are dawdlers. As the good folks at WhereIveBeen.com [...]
[This post originally appeared on Sept. 24/09, but since we're just a month out from the start of the 2010 Winter Games, I've brought it back...]
Just back from Whistler where a small group of international travel writers were this week treated to an impressive dog-and-pony about British Columbia’s upcoming Winter Olympics.
Let it be said that [...]
Until I visited Haida Gwaii in the summer of 2007, I felt awkward and frankly a little pretentious using the aboriginal name for the remote archipelago off British Columbia’s northern coast.
I was more comfortable saying “Queen Charlotte Islands”–the name that had been printed on every grade school map I’d ever studied.
But last week, the Globe [...]
Time didn’t allow for me to attend the travel panel at this year’s Blog World and New Media Expo in Las Vegas, but the beauty of social media is that it came to me instead via Twitter and RSS.
I know a lot of people reading here work in or around the travel industry, so I thought [...]
In the folk art gallery of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in downtown Halifax, NS, there’s a colourful early 20th century piece by Francis Silver Hansport that depicts a women’s sewing circle and poses the question:
“One man has typewritten 4,917 words in an hour, but could he keep up with the conversation at a womans [sic] sewing [...]
Yesterday I attended a service at my sister’s church, St. Andrew’s-Wesley United in downtown Vancouver, where I was moved to tears by Rev. Gary Paterson’s sermon about the power of love–divine love, of course, but also the much more prosaic love of marital relationships.
My husband Brad and I have been married for 28 years–not all [...]
Quebec knows how to party and you wouldn’t doubt me if you visited during Carnaval, which this year runs from Jan. 30 to Feb.15. This article highlighting the delights of Canada’s original winter festival originally appeared in the North Shore News in 2002.
A white flag at winter
When the late Peter Gzowski suggested Canada needed a [...]
Winter is the best time to see Canada’s dramatic northern lights. This excerpt, from an article that first appeared in Vancouver’s Georgia Straight, describes a recent viewing in Churchill, Manitoba.
We’d been flying for hours. In the row ahead, two American hunters on their way up to Baker Lake to bag a few musk ox adjusted [...]
This an excerpt from “Tune in to your next trip,” my story about the power of music to transform our travels. It originally appeared in Canada’s Globe & Mail newspaper:
II. Appassionato
If, as the Bard reminds us, all the world’s a stage, then I propose we photo-obsessed wayfarers might do well to lay aside our cameras [...]
