One of the websites I accessed before our trip to Japan said that, unlike other major world capitals, Tokyo is less about must-see sights than it is about experiencing its 14 individual neighborhoods. In four days, we were never going to get around to all 14. So we chose a few to explore and kept …
We’re chatting to a couple from Arizona at the grill side bar of an izakaya, Japan’s unique version of a place to have a drink and a few snacks. They tell us it seems all they’ve done since they arrived in Tokyo is eat. We agree, and I say I read that Tokyo has the …
I must have flowers, always and always ( Claude Monet). One of my summer fantasies involves being the owner of an enormous cutting garden. I picture myself in a big sunhat and a flower splashed sundress, cutting stems and laying them in a wicker basket, arranging them later in a ceramic milk jug for display …
In August 2020, Margaret Nazon, a Northwest Territories beader for whom I was acting as business manager, forwarded me an email, saying, “I’m very interested in this opportunity.” When I read the email, I almost dropped my phone. Stephen Loring, an Arctic anthropologist with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, was requesting a commission …
In the time of Glooscap, so the Mi’kmaq people say, a pod of cruel great whales who lived in the Bay of Fundy, enslaved some of their people, forcing them to do their will. One day, the people saw the chance to escape. They made it all the way to the beach before the whales …
Its shipbuilding history is evident throughout St. Martin’s, New Brunswick
When I was a kid, my grandmother used to loan my mom copies of a glossy magazine called Ideals. I loved its sentimental poetry and folksy photos of things I’d never seen growing up in Edmonton – white country churches, forest pathways of fiery red maple leaves, and covered bridges. I didn’t realize then that …
If you’re a seasoned traveler, you’ll have experienced those days when your vacation came right off the rails. You’ll also be able to relate to the day we spent – or tried to spend – touring the city of Fredericton. The weather didn’t help. The 30C heat and high humidity made our 20 minute walk …
Somewhere in a box of old photos, I have a picture of myself from a trip I took to PEI with my sister in the 1970s. I’m sitting on a sand dune among a waving field of marram grass, the vegetation whose matted root system literally keeps the sand from blowing away. We didn’t realize …
On our travel day to PEI, we’d been up at 4 am for a 2 hour, 7 am flight from Hamilton to Moncton, then stood in line at the airport for a car rental, and finally driven a couple of hours to get to Summerside. As a result, we were looking for something low energy …
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