Tag: travel

Instagramable: Toronto’s Railway Museum celebrates an anniversary

Rick McGinnis October 4, 2019

I’M ALWAYS AT A LOSS FOR WORDS WHEN PEOPLE ASK ME WHERE TO GO WHEN THEY VISIT MY HOMETOWN. I have a hard time looking at Toronto as a tourist, so when I try to answer that question, Casa Loma …

Beach Life: Sun, Sand, Resorts and Spas on Mexico’s Mayan Riviera

Rick McGinnis March 5, 2019

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

Rick McGinnis February 26, 2019

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 …

Lord of the Manor: Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire, 2008

Rick McGinnis January 10, 2019

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 …

Spain 2007: Andalucia, the Alhambra and the Costa del Sol

Rick McGinnis November 29, 2018

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 …