Category: responsible tourism

• 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

• A City Escape

  

  Cerulean skies with hint of cottony cover and a perfect day for hikes. We were were not the only ones trooping into the Rouge National Urban Park, the parking lots were full, and inside hiking groups, wanderers, juniors, seniors, (some in uniformed identification), raring to enjoy themselves in the cool greens and gurgling fresh Creek […]

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  May 19, 2022

  2022, Accidental Expat, responsible tourism, Sense of Place

  Jo’s Monday Walk, Neighbourhood Spaces, Rouge National Urban Park, Toronto hikes, Urban Parks

• Moving to another country without social media holding my hand.

  26 years ago (1995), my first Accidental Expat experience, with the accompanying ifs and buts, was no glossy, glamorous paradisal adventure. The reason, there was no invasive deluge of pictures / vlogs / blogs on WhatsApp, Instagram, Google (at least in India), Yelp, Tik-Tok etc…to hold my hand in the hit-and-run learning experiences in an […]

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  October 17, 2021

  2021, Accidental Expat, responsible tourism, Sense of Place

  Indian diaspora, IndiBlogger, Memories, Muscat, Oman Tourism, social media, Sultanate of Oman, thedisplacednation.com, travelogues