Category Travel
In The Family
My father-in-law was a storyteller. He’d lived in India, the Middle East and Europe. He could tell tales of politicians and royalty from the early twentieth century whose paths he had crossed in various circumstances. He also mentioned occasionally that he had been a choirboy at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London when I was young. […]
Missed Opportunity
I always meant to go back again. I didn’t get a chance to examine the decor. And the food was good, if a little pricey. Now I discover the place closed six months after I was there. The Fliegerhorst Restaurant was located on an old air base, now an industrial park, in Eschbach in southern […]
Dusk in the City
I would have taken more photos Friday night at Hog’s Back, but it was after nine and I was losing the light. It is oases like this that make Ottawa such a liveable city.
Images of War – II
A photo essay of sorts today. Just a jumble of pictures I took last month at the Imperial War Museum in London. I have some other pictures I will share at a later date, focused on specific aspects of the museum displays. Today’s photos though were chosen at random. I’m not sure if pictures without […]
Maybe It’s Me
I just don’t see the appeal. It is just a big pricey Ferris wheel. To me the view isn’t worth 30 British pounds – about $50 Canadian. I think I am in the minority; 30 million people visited it in its first seven years. The London Eye probably hadn’t even been thought of on my […]
Images of War
It seems silly to talk about the deficiencies of London’s Imperial War Museum. After all, I spent five hours there; it isn’t as if I wasn’t learning lots of stuff. I was surprised though that it starts with the First World War. The United Kingdom has been around for centuries, and there was England before […]
Clickbait
I’m not going to reproduce it here. I still can’t figure out the purpose. The ad headline read: This secret beach should be on your Montreal road trip bucket list. Montreal’s ultimate summer getaway was just ranked one of the best beaches in Canada. I grew up in Montreal. I didn’t recognize the beach in […]
A D-Day Anniversay
Today is the 79th anniversary of the Allied invasion of France, the first step in liberating occupied Europe from Nazi domination. I thought it might be appropriate to repeat this post from 2014. They knew it was coming. Not the exact date or time, but there was a sense of inevitability. One day they would […]
The Burghers
It had been a long day. And the friend I was with lives just outside London, so I didn’t want to bore him by visiting sites he’d seen dozens of times before. But he’d never seen the Burghers of Calais, one of Auguste Rodin’s most famous sculptures. I will admit to being a little surprised. […]
Doors Open 2023
It is the annual Doors Open weekend in Ottawa, where various public buildings – churches, embassies, museums and other public and private places of interest – are open for free tours. You can’t possibly squeeze them all in. I’ve probably been in about half of them before anyway, and it being a busy weekend already, […]
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