I AM NOT A BEACH PERSON. Basking in the sun while waves lap the shore nearby might be heaven for many people, but I’m not one of them. Which made a recent trip to the Mayan Riviera on Mexico’s Yucatan …
A Pleasant Case of the Blues by Mexico’s Lake Bacalar
THEY SAY THERE ARE SEVEN SHADES OF BLUE in the water of the Laguna Bacalar – that’s why its Spanish name is Laguna de los Siete Colores. My guess is that there are probably more than seven colours, ranging from …
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Lord of the Manor: Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire, 2008
DISNEY BROUGHT ME BACK TO BRITAIN FOR THE SECOND TIME. Sometime in the mid-’00s I got on the movie junket circuit, and the most generous sponsor of those junkets – almost inevitably a night or two in a really good …
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24 Hours in NYC: Iconic Photos in an Iconic City
NEW YORK MIGHT BE THE MOST PHOTOGRAPHED CITY IN THE WORLD. There probably isn’t an angle of the town that hasn’t been captured on film a thousand times, from the skyline viewed from the water to the canyon-like streets stretching …
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Spain 2007: Andalucia, the Alhambra and the Costa del Sol
I RETURNED TO SPAIN AGAIN IN 2007, for the first time with an actual assignment to produce a travel story or two. It was another press junket, sponsored by Air Transat, to a part of Spain I had never visited …
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Instagramable: Fall Colours and the Group of Seven in Kleinburg
FALL COLOURS IN ONTARIO ARE A BITTERSWEET THING – they’re lovely, but they mean that winter is on the way. Leaves begin turning in September in the north and make their way down the province to the lakes like wildfire. …
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Racing Against the Clock to Capture Buffalo’s Urban Revival
I HAVE DEVELOPED A SERIOUS CASE OF BUFFALO ENVY. My visits to this American city just over the border have revealed an architectural wonderland, an urbanite’s playground, and a very friendly town undergoing a revival that’s turning into a renaissance. …
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Buffalo’s Central Terminal: Big, beautiful and back from the brink
BUFFALO’S CENTRAL TERMINAL STANDS EPIC AND FORLORN WITHIN SIGHT OF THE MAPLE LEAF as it travels between Toronto and New York City. The station’s Art Deco tower looms behind the abandoned and weed-choked platforms on the far side of the …
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