For two weeks every July for the past 27 years, theatre companies from across Canada and around the world converge at the geographic centre of North America for the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival. This year will see 180 companies perform [...]
A few weeks ago, I spent nine days in London, England tagging along on Steve’s business travel. We had visited London together once before for a long weekend, which freed me up to do things a bit less touristy this [...]
The first thing we do when we arrive in a new city is to embark upon what we have come to call a “SIM Safari.” We both have unlocked iPhones and if it’s not too costly, we both get a SIM [...]
Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore) is a place in transition. Its rapidly soaring tech industry is rising around the city’s fragile infrastructure and a multitude of citizens living in poverty. My tag along trip with Steve, who was teaching a couple of [...]
The last few days of our Islandhopping tour had us in Ho Chi Minh City for a day, then cruising along the Mekong River and cycling through a few villages along the way. We then moved back to Ho Chi [...]
Hoi An is known for its romantic, lantern-lit streets, riverside restaurants, and tailor shops that will design made-to-measure clothing at rates and with a turnaround time impossible for a North American to imagine. We were looking forward to this stop [...]
Vietnam’s historic Hue (pronounced hu-ay) is located on the banks of the Perfume River and is home to more than 300 temples and pagodas. Thankfully, we did not visit all of them. That would have made for a very long [...]
In complete contrast to our first stop in bustling Hanoi, Ha Long Bay offered a serene landscape of soaring limestone pillars, calm waters, fascinating caves, and a community of cheery junk boats cruising its inlets. […]
Hanoi marked the first stop on our April Islandhopping bike, boat, and kayaking tour of Vietnam. Our drive from the airport to our hotel in the Old Quarter introduced us to a city teeming with activity and overrun with a [...]