Posts tagged nightlife
Toronto – My Kind of Town
Jan 4th
Bob Fisher invites us to spend a long weekend in his home city, Toronto…
How does a travel journalist describe the city in which he has spent most of his life?
A Latin professor of mine at university many years ago insisted that we speak certain rather arcane sentences. I remember especially:
Strepitum odi urbium; rus est semper mihi gratissium (I hate the din of cities; the country is most pleasing to me.)
There is the perennial love-hate relationship with cities and their cultures of “the rush”. As poor angst-ridden Woody Allen once said in a documentary, “I like everywhere I go; I just More >
Go West to Cortes
Dec 23rd
While other 20-year-olds were heading for the all-night discos of the Mediterranean, Hannah Abbott chose to Go West…
Cortes
A Mecca for East-coast Canadian travellers partial to a bit of peace and love, the islands off the West coast of British Columbia would have remained undiscovered for me were it not for a friend of a friend of a friend. Well, one island in particular: Cortes.
I spent a month there, variously staying with old friends, crashing at new friends’, sleeping under the stars, and living in a refurbished 1955 school bus. It’s just that kind of place.
We certainly got there in style. More >
