Posts tagged with "travel"
Tower Bridge

London, summer 2011

I had previously been to London on business — multiple times in fact, in the late 1990s. Those were the heady days of the dot-com boom, and I came away with the impression of a beautiful, sprawling city filled with hard-drinking expats in search of their technology sector fortune. This summer, we spent 10 days in [...]

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New York City, July/August

Impressions from New York:

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South Bend Indiana

South Bend, Indiana

On my way back from Seattle last Saturday, I had another small travel adventure (my adventure on the way there is described here). A blizzard had been announced back in Toronto (it was known by Friday afternoon that we’d get a lot of snow – 30cm+). So I tried calling Air Canada the night before [...]

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Forget your laptop

Time to forget my laptop

So here I was, early for my flight, as it turns out, at Toronto Pearson Airport, e-ticket in hand. You know the drill (well, if you’ve left Toronto by plane then you do): Use one of the little electronic kiosks to check in and get your boarding pass; Stand in line to get your luggage [...]

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Huntsville graffiti

Okay, these aren’t really graffiti. They’re mural copies of famous Group of Seven artworks in downtown Huntsville, Ontario.

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Muskoka

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Frankfurt

Frankfurt

I’ve been visiting beautiful Frankfurt, Germany over Christmas. Well, I’ve been staying with my relatives in Offenbach, which is 20 minutes to Frankfurt by transit. Been having a great time… an excellent way to take a break, great shopping and great culture. I went to see two exhibitions at the Schirn Kunsthalle – one about [...]

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