My alarm woke me up at 4:30 am yesterday in order to get me to the shuttle by 5:30 am. After a short bus ride to the Whistler Mountaineer station in North Vancouver, Canada and I was boarding the privately-run Alberta train up to Whistler to catch some of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games action from [...]

Although Chinese New Years is over and we’ve gone into the year of the tiger, the folks at Aberdeen Centre (4151 Hazelbridge Way), in Richmond, Canada, are keeping the tradition alive.
Chinese Lion Dancing
I hopped on the Canada Line this week and made my way to Richmond to see the Chinese lion dancers in action. Beside [...]

It’s impossible to think of the Yukon, Canada without smiling. I went up there for the first time last summer and was stunned day after day by the landscapes that unfolded everywhere I looked. Sunsets at midnight? I dig it.
Yukon, Canada Travel
Here are a few of my favourite Yukon adventures:
Sushi in Whitehorse
Dawson City Music Festival
Dawson City
Fishing [...]

Things are pretty cool at the Northern House, the resource for all things northern Canada during the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. I went to the media reception last evening to check out what the NWT (Northwest Territories) folks were doing to lure travellers to the Arctic.
aurora borealis
International visitors seem to be most fascinated with the aurora [...]

I couldn’t hold back tears as the Turanga Ararau Kapa Haka Maori group from Gisborne, New Zealand said their last thank you to the crowd. They had just finished a half an hour performance that electrified the audience and produced many kiwi cheers.
Maori Culture
A quick tour through Maori culture was shared with us through magnificent [...]

I was delighted to be re-introduced to a lovely space in Yaletown, Vancouver recently. Locals remember Villa del Lupo fondly and so do the new owners: Julio Gonzalez Perini and Michael Mameli once worked at the Italian restaurant together. 
This time around, they have re-named it Lupo Restaurant and focus on what they call “reinventions of [...]