After making the long journey to the picturesque Bwindi National Park (tightly clutching our gorilla tracking permits), and hiking down 600 metres to the valley bottom where the Mountain Gorillas…
Taxi version… Ottawa versus Barbados. Based on recent experience. 1) Lots of baggage and taxis, Barbados. Part One. Driver cheerfully picks up from Granley Adams Airport and carefully sets our…
… but my skills as an angler prevailed! I went deep-sea fishing for the first time the other day (strike another off The List) and brought Subunit #2 with me.…
… and yeah, I’m late… Well, bite me. I have many, many , many other more important things to do aside from blogging! Seriously. On a scale of 1 to…
YIKES! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
… or is it part II? I dunno. I’m on island time now! We arrived late Friday afternoon after being delayed by over an hour in Toronto due to the…
Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
… starting tomorrow! As has been my custom when I travel, I take a break from my political punditry, overblown opines, meandering messages, etc., etc., etc. Instead, this space turns…
Which would be chimpanzees of course! I am in fact 98% chimp… and so are you. Can you see the resemblance? Its like looking in a mirror that is 98%…
Amazing little birds that weave basket like nests. Building a nest: Leaving in search of more nesting material: Taken in Bigodi, Uganda. Related posts (randomly generated) Suit could follow any…
So far I have taken over 2500 pictures. But the internet here is too slow for me to upload much, and you probably want me to go through the mountain…
I am currently sitting at the airport waiting for my flight. I’ll spend the next six weeks somewhere in Uganda trying to see things like this: I’ll be mostly out…
Some great news. Montreal, my fabulous home town, has won the 2011 New Now Next (NNN) award for Best Global Destination, beating out Corsica, London, Marrakesh, Shanghai, and Tokyo for…
… and lines from my favourite all time TV show keep coming back to me… And right now, I hear a helicopter coming in low heading in the direction of…
But, is there anyone out there who has flown in the past 50 yrs who does not know how to fasten their seatbelt prior to take off? AND, is there…
… or at least on my way out of Edmonton… Arrived late the other night for a day full of meetings yesterday… and leaving 36 hours later. I don’t mind…
When we leave the comfort of our homes to travel, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) human beings, like everyone else, experience the thrills of being in a new environment…
Struggling and homophobic destinations, take heed. Yet another study, this time from Canada, has shown that gay and lesbian travellers represent a substantial market not to be ignored. The study,…
While in Montreal on our honeymoon, we stayed in an independent hotel. As with some parts of Montreal, the neighbourhood wasn’t high class, but the staff and accommodations certainly were.…
From Church St. looking northish. View from our hotel room. We paid a little extra over the Hotwire price to get this room, but it was worth it. Security blanket…
