I’m used to feeling small. At 5’2”, I look up at almost everything and everyone. So when I stood looking up at an orange polar fleece jacket 18 times larger than human scale (26.5 metres / 87 feet cuff to cuff), all I could think was, “Whoo hoo, everyone will feel small in this...
“We specialize in Indonesian Rijsttafels and these are the dishes you receive with rice.” My server, dressed in Indonesian attire, smiles as I look with wide eyes over the lengthy list of dishes at Puri Mas* in Amsterdam. “And this is for one person?” I double check. “Oh yes, they’re very small portions,” she assures...
Some were calling it “pedestrian,” others “I could have cooked this myself,” but the baked seafood dish with rice and cream sauce ($8.95) was my favourite. I was on a food tour* of Alexandra Road in Richmond – right next to Vancouver and the fantastic Vancouver food scene – a three block wunderstreet of over...
Remember glow worm toys, those dolls that light up when you squeeze them? I never thought they were based on anything real. Turks and Caicos While I was in Turks and Caicos to check out the exceptional Amanyara Villas*, I was out kayaking and noticed some holes in the sand. Looking much like the...
The trip came at the perfect time: I woke up a week ago and thought to myself, “Do I really want to be a travel writer?” Uh oh, I had some thinking to do. So it was with great relief that I could pack my bikini and sunglasses and hop on a flight to...
I felt like an ant among a colony. I could hear the Bollywood music by Babukishan Das Baul from inside the theatre but was stuck in a growing crowd outside the door, being let in only as someone left. The 7th annual Diwali festival in Vancouver was the most popular place to be on...
The first rapid is an easy class two. No one has ever fallen in. So seven of us paddle faster and faster towards it – I’m perched on the front left of the raft – lit only by the full moon at 11:00 pm. But we hit the rapid at an awkward angle. I...
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