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The Gilded Age to the Next Gen: Summer in the Berkshires

January 2, 2015by Jennifer Allford Leave a comment

­ Toronto Star, July 2, 2014, Lenox, Massachusetts–Dozens of pink roses spill over each other in the middle of the table, hiding the silver salt-and-pepper shakers, as we sit down […]

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Get lost in Boston

January 2, 2015by Jennifer Allford Leave a comment

­ Toronto Star July 23, 2014, Boston, Mass–The conversations and the good humour start pretty much immediately after you get off the plane in Boston. A chatty Albanian bus driver […]

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Guatemala: A country full of colourful contradictions

January 2, 2015by Jennifer Allford Leave a comment

­ Toronto Star October 24, 2014, Antigua, Guatemala–Visit a saint who smokes and drinks. Watch a school boy in a crisp uniform check his phone as a young woman walks […]

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Volcano hike leaves rocks in your shoes and marshmallow on your face

January 2, 2015by Jennifer Allford Leave a comment

Toronto Star October 24, 2014, Pacaya, Guatemala–It wasn’t an ordinary hike. For one, we cheated and rode up most of the way in the back of a small pick-up truck. […]

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The miraculous Adams River sockeye salmon run 

January 1, 2015by Jennifer Allford Leave a comment

Toronto Star Oct 30, 2014, Adams River, BC–They call it the salmon run, but when you see them at the finish line, the Adams River in the Shuswap, B.C., the […]

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Meet the Girl with a Pearl Earring in The Hague

January 1, 2015by Jennifer Allford Leave a comment

Toronto Star July 23, 2014, The Hague, Netherlands–She watches you everywhere you go. From posters in store windows, shopping bags swinging on arms and umbrellas held by guards outside the […]

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A mountain of doggy personality in Lake Louise

December 15, 2014by Jennifer Allford Leave a comment

Calgary Herald Nov. 29, 2014, Lake Louise: Sometimes, the people Megan Routley takes out on her dog sled ask whether her dogs have names, or whether she just assigns them numbers. […]

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Hanging with the cool (wine) kids

December 15, 2014by Jennifer Allford Leave a comment

Toronto Star Nov. 29, 2014 Patagonia, Chile–The red wine swirls impossibly close to the top of the glass. The critic holds the stem and with a tiny circling of his hand […]

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Exploring Patagonia

December 15, 2014by Jennifer Allford Leave a comment

Toronto Star Nov. 29, 2014, Patagonia, Chile–The ancient ice cracking sounds, for a second, like the end of the world. We’re standing on a beach in Brookes Fjord in Southern […]

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Making room for a happy holiday.

December 1, 2014by Jennifer Allford Leave a comment

Calgary Herald December 1, 2014: Every year about this time—as pretty lights start going up around the neighbourhood and shopping mall parking lots become anything but pretty—I head to the […]

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