The Plague-Ground – Planes, Trains and Automobiles
I wouldn’t want to be an airline these days. Even more, I wouldn’t want to be an airline passenger. Those long waits to go through
May 6, 2020
August 9, 2021
Tags: Travel
The Plague-Ground – One to Think. One to Blink.
Two weeks ago, I was searching for toney ways to keep us entertained at night. Enough of Tiger King! Bring on King Lear! Today, I’m
April 22, 2020
August 9, 2021
The Plague-Ground – Who’s in your basement?
Imagine you tune in to the Prime Minister’s daily pandemic briefing today and hear him say this: “We are now ready to open the American
April 17, 2020
August 9, 2021
The Plague-Ground – The Cruelty of Strangers
Remember the final scene from A Streetcar Named Desire? Blanche DuBbois (played by Vivien Leigh) famously says to the doctor leading her away to an
April 8, 2020
August 9, 2021
The Plague-Ground – Does Our Future Already Exist on Fogo Island?
As we sit at home watching our hair grow uncut, we’re deluged with ideas for how to rebuild a fairer, kinder world once life on
April 1, 2020
August 9, 2021
The Plague-Ground – THERE AIN’T NO MUSIC UNLESS THE WORDS SING.
Raise your hand if you don’t like music. Good. Not one person raised their hand. It’s amazing that 100% of us can agree on one
March 24, 2020
August 9, 2021
Circumnavigating Manhattan by kayak
One island, 49 kilometres, 10 hours: This epic tour of New York City’s most populous borough is a marathon of sights and sounds — and
November 25, 2019
August 9, 2021
New Ways to Travel
Lecture Delivered by Bob Ramsay University Lecture Series University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies November, 2018 This lecture is not called New Places to Travel, but
November 28, 2018
August 9, 2021
Fit for a Maharaja: Not Your Traditional Adventure Through India
Everyone who travels to India returns to say a variation of this: “I am inside the most opulent palace in the world—and outside its gates, the
April 25, 2017
August 9, 2021
10 Ways To Make Canada’s 150th As Big And Memorable As Possible
 Whether it was Big for you or not, you need to start planning for next summer — Canada’s 150th — right now. Because waiting till
September 20, 2016
August 9, 2021
If Can content is your thing, then you must head to this Newfoundland festival
WOODY POINT, NFLD-Writersat Woody Point is to summer festivals what Gros Morne is to natural splendours. Both are understated, full of surprises and oddly Canadian.
April 18, 2016
August 9, 2021
Gansevoort hotel serves as oasis in midst of New York’s Meatpacking District
NEW YORK-Rundown warehouses, dodgy streets, and zero nightlife filled the city’s Meatpacking District back in 2003. A year later, the boutique hotel Gansevoort Meatpacking NYC, opened
February 1, 2016
August 9, 2021
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