Category: Sense of Place

• Galveston..Memories and Prejudices

  

  Some places disappear to inner recesses of memory till an incident or event resurrects them to the forefront. In the summer of 2011 Galveston was another beach town for a weekend visit from neighbouring Houston, Texas. 10 years later, in 2021, Galveston metamorphosed from a bleachy, cataclysmic city into a ‘freedom’ icon. I learn that this […]

  Travtrails

  June 19, 2022

  2021, 2022, Accidental Expat, Memories, Sense of Place

  Black Lives Matter, Galveston, Hurricane Ike, IndiBlogger, Juneteenth, past revisited, Refurbished Heritage, Texas, Thursday Doors, Travel, USA

• 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 […]

  Travtrails

  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 […]

  Travtrails

  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