Category: Accidental Expat

• A Summer’s Day….

  

  Continuing with my series of Neighbourhood Spaces.   Six months of freezing winter months and the first signs of soaring mercury and I am ready to embrace the Canadian summer, the sunshine and colorful smiling nature a.k.a William Shakespeare…  “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds […]

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  June 15, 2022

  2022, Accidental Expat, Sense of Place

  Canada Tourism, Lens-Artists #203: Local Vistas, Neighbourhood Spaces, Tommy Thompson Park, Toronto

• Guild-ed Greens….

  

  Continuing with my series of Neighbourhood Spaces, Toronto.   Another urban gem is the scenic and historic Guildwood Park and Inn constellated with sculptures manifesting history, artists and political influencers.  The Park, an extension of Scarborough Bluffs, alongside Lake Ontario is a sculptured fantasyland and as we step onto the greens we are in midst […]

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  June 7, 2022

  2022, Accidental Expat, responsible tourism, Sense of Place

  Grecian landscape, Guildwood Park and Inn, Jo’s Monday Walk, Neighbourhood Spaces, Scarborough Bluffs, Toronto

• Jumbo Splendour – Hong Kong

  

  A memory revived on reading about the redundancy of the iconic Jumbo Floating Restaurant, till now a permanent fixture off Aberdeen pier and promenade. 2020 was the watershed Covid induced period of expendability and to rub salt to the abrasion the kitchen barge section sank as on May 31, 2022 days before it was supposed […]

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  June 5, 2022

  2022, Accidental Expat, Memories, Sense of Place

  Floating Restaurant, Hong Kong, iconic landmarks, Jumbo Kingdom