Hurdy-gurdy and a night at the museum Spring-like weather got me reminiscing about Paris with my little hurdy-gurdy, working an evening event at the museum I found myself running through an empty exhibit dressed like a French settler (don’t ask) and we spent some time at Winterlude just down the street from our apartment. A […]
365 Project – week 6
Week 6, yes really This winter seems to be flying by! After five wet and dark winters on the West Coast these wintery blue skies are great. This week we visited the Rideau Canal, the world’s longest skateway, witnessed three grown ups having a snowball fight and went for an early morning walk by the river. Nat […]
365 Project – week 5
A new month Another week has passed and here we are starting a fresh month. Temperatures have gone from – 30C to +10C and back to the minuses. We’ve had a few long days at work, a visit to the museum, a party and some great food. What did you get up to this week?
365 Project – week 4
A small window into my life I received a nice email from a friend this week, she said that she was enjoying seeing my 365 project pictures, she described it as a small window into my life. That’s nice but it’s what she wrote afterwards that stayed with me. She wrote that doing a project […]
365 Project
A picture a day A picture a day for 365 days, that’s the challenge at hand. Can I do it? I’m not sure, I’ve tried doing a picture a day for the month of May project last year and believe it or not, I didn’t take a picture on May 1st and then figured what […]
Torino, Images of a Shrouded City
Torino Turin is best known as the stage of the 2006 winter Olympics. It is the home of the Shroud of Turin and is also known as the Automobile Capital of Italy as it is home to Fiat. Turin is a great city, packed with museums, galleries, parks and one of the biggest outdoor/indoor markets […]
Borgo Garibaldi – a pictorial
Borgo Garibaldi We rented an apartment at Cà Borgo Vecchio in Borgo Garibaldi, it made for a comfortable base from where to explore the area. Borgo Garibaldi is a suburb of Brusasco in the Piedmont region of Italy. The Borgo is small and consists of a castle, and a few buildings built around the church, […]
Bologna: World Class City
Bologna Housing the oldest university ever known, Bologna is a world class city with high end shops, beautiful piazzas and great food. Sometimes overlooked for more popular tourist towns, Bologna has a lot to offer from amazing architecture including leaning towers to kilometers of beautiful porticos. If you are into food and travel, Bologna is […]