Posts in Tag: architecture
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Oak Park Illinois – Hemingway and Frank Lloyd Wright
About a month ago I found myself with a free day in my one of my all time favourite cities – Chicago. It really is my kind of town. The modern architecture never ceases to keep me spellbound, particularly these two amazing apartment buildings by Mies van der Rohe. Doesn’t it look like the cars […]
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Kitchener – Canoeing the Grand River and Seeing the City
My son Dale and I are on our annual RV trip and this year we have chosen the Waterloo region of southern Ontario as our destination. The trip got off to a great start yesterday with a visit to the interesting town of St. Jacob’s followed by a tour of Mount Hope Cemetery in Waterloo. […]
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Canadian Museum for Human Rights will Transform Winnipeg
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights will open in Winnipeg this September and I believe it will entirely transform the city in the same manner that the Guggenheim Bilbao has transformed that northern Spanish city; so first a little history of Bilbao and how it is changing from a cultural backwater to a must see […]
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Winnipeg Manitoba – How My Affair with this Prairie City Began
My affair with Winnipeg Manitoba began innocently enough; I was an eleven year old boy with an overbite so pronounced I could have been a stand-in for Beaver Cleaver. At a time when orthodontics were unknown in northern Manitoba my parents deemed it necessary to have this situation corrected and how they found the name […]
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Pittsburgh – First Impressions of the City of Bridges
I almost didn’t get to Pittsburgh yesterday thanks to the ever vigilant authorities at Pearson Airport. Despite having a Nexus card I got tagged for extra scrutiny and diverted to the regular security lineup where I presented my boarding pass and put my things through the scanner. No big deal – until I tried to […]
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Oude Kerk and Nieuwe Kerk – Visiting Delft’s Two Famous Churches
It was nice to get up early and have Delft’s market square pretty well all to ourselves. It had been wall to wall people on Koningsdag and yesterday when we took a cruise on the canals it was not much better. This morning it’s mostly us and the pigeons except for one damn lorry diver […]
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Delft – Home of Vermeer and Other Reasons to be Daft about Delft
In the last post we wrapped up our bike and barge tour of Holland with Cycletours and then took the train to Delft to join in the first ever Dutch celebration of Koningsdag. Alison and I both agreed it was one of the most interesting days of our lives. Today we will take the time […]
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De Beemster – On Our Own in a World Heritage Site
In my last post on the bike and barge trip to Holland with Cycletours we pedalled to the North Sea and through the magnificent sand dunes that abut the shore before spending the night at the lovely little city of Alkmaar. Today Alison and I are going to try for something completely different in De […]