Boozy Sunday brunch and thrift store shopping
We spent our first full day, a Sunday, enjoying a boozy brunch and fossicking through Vancouver’s thrift store. Continue reading Boozy Sunday brunch and thrift store shopping
Tag: Travel
Oh, Canada!
There are few things more delicious than a long, hot shower and brushing your teeth after a long haul flight. Continue reading Oh, Canada!
Winter-bound for a week
“Oh, that’s a long way to go for only a week!” This seems to be the consensus of all who hear that soon I’ll be winging my way to Vancouver for a week’s vacation with my 26-year-old daughter. Continue reading Winter-bound for a week
Capturing Paris’ evening light
It was still warm on our first Sunday evening in Paris. The perfect evening to explore our neighbourhood a little further. As the sun slowly sunk lower and lower, it created the most beautiful saffron light against Paris’ creamy buildings. Continue reading Capturing Paris’ evening light
Buying supplies at the Montorgueil Market
Today, a Sunday and our first full day in Paris, we spent exploring and buying supplies from local stores in the Montorgueil Market area. It was a great opportunity to use some of the French I’ve been learning at night classes for the past two terms. I think we both did ourselves proud for at least attempting to speak French, and got a good response from most of the busy shop keepers. Continue reading Buying supplies at the Montorgueil Market
Accompanying the Amazing Adele at Wembley
Last night, my daughter Michayla and I had the privilege of spending an evening with Adele, along with a record-breaking 98,000 others at Wembley Stadium. It was the first night of her four-night Finale, the end of her album 25 tour that began in February 2016. Continue reading Accompanying the Amazing Adele at Wembley
Dodging Tots, Toddlers, and Teens to find those Dinosaurs
Exit the shop and I’m back in the corridors of the Natural History Museum surrounded by school children, hundreds and hundreds of them. It was like they’d spawned in the hour I’d been in the exhibit. Squealing and jostling, chattering and giggling, filling the wooden halls and windowed ceilings with their raucous noise. Continue reading Dodging Tots, Toddlers, and Teens to find those Dinosaurs
Celebrating Wildlife at the Natural History Museum
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition is a collection of the 2016 finalists. If you appreciate the mental and physical pain that photographers like these go through, just to capture the perfect shot of a parrot grabbing the tail of an iguana as it raids the bird’s nest, then it’s well worth a visit. Continue reading Celebrating Wildlife at the Natural History Museum
Harrods, where I can’t even afford to breathe
Harrods is one of those places you hear and read about, that you want to visit just to see how the other half live, just to see if its as ridiculously opulent as you’ve heard. Trust me, it is. It’s both opulent and ridiculous. After just an hour, I was too punch-drunk on opulence-overload to take any more in. Continue reading Harrods, where I can’t even afford to breathe
Wandering through the Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum holds many of the UK’s national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance. Continue reading Wandering through the Victoria and Albert Museum
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