Myself and two friends were the only non-Asian faces in the crowd. Although a lot of tourists come through here, it didn’t seem like many of them were western, at least on the day we went. I had dragged two friends to a kimono fashion show in Kyoto, something that runs seven times per...
During my month in New Zealand last November, I had the chance to take a sightseeing flight over Tongariro National Park with a company called Mountain Air.* I drove from the Chateau Tongariro and was met at the Mountain Air office by Ruven, a young pilot from South Africa. We settled into a plane...
It’s that time of the year again when January rolls around and we feel a bit bloated from the holidays and New Years Eve shenanigans. In comes Dine Out Vancouver, an annual festival for food lovers that helps get us out of the cozy house and into restaurants we haven’t tried yet, or favourites...
The trip was a success: I had spent the month of November on the North Island of New Zealand attending the SATW convention in Wellington, did a post-trip to hike and mountain bike in Tongariro National Park, and then spent the remaining weeks travelling from Paihia and Auckland in the north, down to Rotorua...
I feature Melena in my upcoming book, Catching My Breath: Dancing my way across Canada, in a chapter about the circus scene in Montreal. Although she gives a behind-the-scenes look at life in the circus, I wanted to profile her dance career outside of Cirque du Soleil, too, which is just as impressive.
She seemed to smile up at me, her almost four metre/13 foot-long body sashaying gracefully beneath my own outstretched limbs. Her small eyes looked at me curiously before she blew bubbles that rushed up and hit me in the mask. I jolted upwards and my head shot out of the water. That beluga whale...
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