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...
It was the prettiest outhouse I had ever used. There was even a candle burning gently inside. To the left was a large bottle of water with a pump over a bowl, along with fruity smelling hand soup. But onto the mountain biking. Two-time national team athlete Dominique Larocque had a small group of...
Kesseke Yeo begins by saying that he forgot his performance clothes, so I’ll have to make do with his practice attire. It doesn’t seem to faze him when he starts dancing, though, something he’s done since he was seven years old. African Dancing in Vancouver From the northern Ivory Coast, Kesseke danced with the...
I am climbing a muddy, potholed dirt hill in a Range Rover Sport. As I get to the top my front wheels reach the peak, but my view is of the trees above, not the ground. And I am about to go straight down. Manoeuvring a Range Rover Sport I inch my foot down...
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