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Category: travel

  • Our Trip 2012 (2) Museum lecture

    Thursday 2nd Feb. and we are up bright and early to travel to the National Museum, in the old part of town near the Grand Palace, for a lecture series. I used to be a member of the museum volunteers and a friend told me about the series which was postponed because of the flooding last…

  • Our Trip 2012 (1) travel and arrival in Bangkok

    Our friends, John and Joelle, drove us to Ottawa airport bright and early Monday morning the 30th January where we checked our 3 bags (more on this later) to be picked up later in Bangkok. We first flew with Air Canada to Toronto and then boarded another Air Canada flight to Beijing. The fourteen hours…

  • Typhoon Sinlaku and Koh Lanta

    I am sitting at my computer while the wind and rain lash at the bedroom window, we are in the midst of a slow moving typhoon, the eye of which is forecast to arrive over Taipei this evening. It is a category 3 (Katrina was a 3) which may change to a 4. It is…

  • niagara on the lake wine tour

    I recently went on a wine tour, courtesy of my place of work. Niagara on the Lake was our destination, and we stayed at the Pillar & Post, an absolutely gorgeous hotel. We enjoyed a day of wines produced by three separate wineries, of the total of sixty that exist, in the region. They ranged…

  • the great algonquin canoe trip of 2006

    I’ve been remiss in my postings so far in August. Most people are away on holidays now anyway, so perhaps it will be barely noticed. In any case, I have many reviews of various events and locations I’ve attended lately, so expect a few posts to come. I’ll start with my recent trip to Algonquin…

  • nyc blast

    So, I’m back from New York. I didn’t post right away, because I needed a few days to let it all sink in first. Well, I also went camping promptly upon my return! In any case, I’ve now formulated a few thoughts about the whole experience of that city, brief though it was. New York…

  • new york, here i come!

    I’m off to New York City today! I’ve never been… or at least, if I have, I was too young to remember it. From one big city, to another: I wonder what it will be like? Two friends have been recently and they both said they felt much safer and more comfortable in Toronto than…

  • an anniversary of sorts

    For me December 31st/January 1st isn’t the only start of a New Year. As time passes, I seem to have collected more and more such “new years”: school beginning in September; my birthday on October 5th; the typical New Year’s; school ending in April (or, previous to post-secondary, in June); the spring season; and, finally,…