
New Westminster, B.C, sent summer off with a bang of fireworks on August 27, 2022. Festivities earlier in the day included artisan market vendors and exhibitors. Here are my favourite photos that I shot from my balcony.
New Westminster, B.C, sent summer off with a bang of fireworks on August 27, 2022. Festivities earlier in the day included artisan market vendors and exhibitors. Here are my favourite photos that I shot from my balcony.
From mid October to early November, 2018, I embarked on a 4 week trip to Spain and Portugal with my friend Blaine, also from Ottawa where I lived at that time. I joined Blaine in Barcelona after finishing up my trip to Venice, Italy. The AirBnB for our 5...
Throughout my 11 day trip to Thailand in January 2020 I was was never really far from among the country’s over 41,000 Buddhist temples (Wat is the Thai word for temple). Clearly, I could not visit them all, haha. For some temples, I went out of my way to...
I was fortunate enough to have installed the Meetup app on my smartphone in early February 2020 and soon discovered the Vancouver Photoxperience group and signed up for a photo tour of the Orpheum Theatre. The event organizers arranged the tour for 30 people and with many thanks to...
Venice is considered among the the most beautiful cities in the world due to its unusual urban design and artistic heritage. It is designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Venice is comprised of 118 islands separated by an extensive system of canals within the shallow Venetian Lagoon and...
I had visited Sydney when I was with the Canadian Navy back in November 1986 when we joined in to celebrate the Royal Australian Navy’s 75th anniversary. I didn’t have much time ashore so I was happy to visit again, this time on my own, in July 2018, for...
After a hectic two days in Gdansk, my northern Poland journey continued on Friday morning, May 24, 2018, to the Medieval Town of Torun. The Torun Miasto train station was only a short walk to my hotel just outside the old town, a great location for my two day...
After a great day in Bialystok, my northern Poland journey continued on Wednesday morning, May 22, 2018, to Gdansk on the Baltic coast of Poland. I managed okay to buy my train tickets, boarded the right train on the correct platform (this route is served daily by 67 trains,...
On Tuesday, May 22, 2018, and Day 3 of my Poland trip, I left Warsaw by train for a 3 1/2 hour ride to Bialystok, the largest city in northeastern Poland and capital of the Podlaskie province. It was a pleasant ride, I had an opportunity to view the...
My 9 day visit to Poland was planned as at least a two part journey, this first trip focused on northern Poland anchored out of Warsaw and took a counter clockwise route via the train system to stops in Bialystok (bʲaˈwɨ.stɔk), Gdansk (and neighboring Sopot), Torun, and back to...