Seeing the good in a bad ‘hood
Toronto Star, August 6, 2016: VANCOUVER, B.C.-The man is dancing and watching his reflection in the window, humming to music only he can hear and oblivious to the small group […]
Category Archives: travel
Groovin’ to the Gros Morne soundtrack
Toronto Star, July 7, 2016: BONNE BAY, NEWFOUNDLAND—The guy driving the water taxi is the same guy singing about whale bones on the CD playing over the speakers as we […]
Rotterdam: Innovation bobs on the water
Toronto Star, June 24, 2016: ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS — Twenty skinny trees are bobbing in the harbour like it is the most natural thing in the world. As their roots stretch […]
A few stories and storytellers in St. John’s
Toronto Star, June 6, 2016: ST. JOHN’S, N.L.—This is a city of storytellers. Writers, actors, musicians, even the cabbie who tells you the word “sex” is spelled in the lights […]
Cool Victoria. Not just nearly dead + newly wed
Toronto Star, April 3, 2016: VICTORIA, B.C.-A guy has a skateboard beneath his feet and a piercing under his nose. Another rides by with a guitar strapped to his back. […]
Disconnecting to connect
Toronto Star, March 12 2016: TECATE, BAJA CALIFORNIA-I guess I didn’t read the brochure that carefully. I knew it was a sprawling spa in Mexico with pools, massages and dozens […]
Christmas shopping on the Rhine River
Toronto Star, December 24, 2015: COLOGNE, GERMANY-The gorgeous scents wash over you as you walk past dozens of outdoor stalls covered in green boughs and red ribbons. Every few steps […]
1, 2, 160: Counting eagles in BC
Toronto Star, February, 2014 I was already feeling humble. Having been instructed to “dress for skiing,” I had on several layers before the oversized rain jacket, pants, rubber boots and […]
Remembering Canadian soldiers every day
Toronto Star, Nov 7, 2015, Nieuwdorp, Netherlands: When Kees Traas was a kid of about six, his uncle gave him a Canadian soldier’s helmet he’d found near their village in western […]
Playing ‘connect the dots’ in the night sky
Toronto Star, October 23, 2015: When the sun eventually sets over Lake Astotin — after the very last pinks and reds vanish into the horizon, leaving only the orange in […]
Jennifer Allford 