Exploring Northeast Florida donnacarter January 3, 2012 5083 Historic St. Augustine, Jacksonville, 70+ golf courses and the magnificent Ponte Vedra Beach For the past five years I’ve been on a mission to explore the Sunshine State’s every nook and cranny. Faced with a b...
Visiting the Olympic Village of Lake Placid mikecohen January 3, 2012 6352 LAKE PLACID: Over the course of many years my family and I passed the exit leading to Lake Placid, New York off Highway 87 and wondered when we would actually visit the former Olympic Village. Well, over the...
Mirror Lake Inn – “It’s a labour of love” The Montrealer January 3, 2012 7856 Ed and Lisa Weibrecht share a love of owning and operating Mirror Lake Inn, providing their guests with first class and unique Adirondack-themed accommodations, sports facilities and superb cuisine. A member of...
A Toronto Tour de Force-Part 2 Julie Kalan January 3, 2012 7563 Toronto is made up of a patchwork of distinctive neighbourhoods. The entertainment and financial districts reside in the core of the city, to the east is Old Town Toronto and a little to the west is the art ...
Petra – a monument to nature’s beauty and man’s ingenuity Julie Kalan December 13, 2011 6931 We all oohed and aahed at the site of Petra’s Treasury, when Indiana Jones took us along on his third adventure. Mesmerized by the beautiful facade, I hoped that someday I would be lucky enough to live out my o...
New York’s Finger Lakes Region has plenty of winter activity donnacarter December 1, 2011 4549 With winter holiday plans now in full swing, the Finger Lakes region, which takes its name from eleven vertical, parallel lakes spanning the center of New York State like a giant handprint, recently came to my ...
A Toronto Tour de Force Julie Kalan December 1, 2011 7086 The first of a two-part feature on Toronto the Fun Toronto is often thought of as a 9 to 5 city, a bastion of business that slumbers outside office hours – but nothing could be further from the truth. Restaura...
Carcassonne – part fortress, part fairy tale Julie Kalan December 1, 2011 5631 Framed by a clear, blue sky and bathed in the glowing mid-morning sun, the fortified town of Carcassonne evokes a scene from the pages of a pop-up storybook. The town itself lies hidden behind two concentric st...
A unique “Outback” love story from Burlington, Vermont The Montrealer November 9, 2011 5732 *Please note: the Outback Steakhouse in Burlington Vermont has closed BURLINGTON, Vt - Montrealers will recall that a few years ago the wonderful Outback Steakhouse chain came to Montreal’s West I...
The Heavenly Heights of Mont Saint Michel Julie Kalan November 5, 2011 10818 At the foot of the abbey, this peaceful lane follows the contours of the mount. Credit: Julie Kalan “Mont Saint Michel is to France what the Great Pyramid is to Egypt.” - Victor Hugo, January 1884 Rising a...
