Years ago, when I had a friend working in the Philippines, I had the awesome opportunity to visit SE Asia. While I was there, we visited the Glorietta Mall (among many other things; please don’t think that the mall was the highlight!), which was quite impressive… but what caught my attention was, of course, the [...]
Sure, it seems like a cheap way out for tonight, but to keep things rolling around here, I stumbled across this internet meme in my RSS reader today (thanks Leah!) and thought I’d take part. I’ve never done one of these before, so here goes…
Rules:
Grab the nearest book.
Open it to page 56.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post [...]
Back on Wednesday, August 6th, on something of a whim I might add, My Girlfriend and I grabbed some rush tickets for Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well at the Stratford Festival Theatre. The show was fantastic!
Neither of us had ever been to the City of Stratford, however, we’ve seen other plays (elsewhere) in the [...]
Quite awhile ago now, I wrote about entering a Henry’s Photo Contest and showed you some shots I’d taken and such. Well, as all too often happens around here, I forgot to update you on how that went!
In short: not well. You see, there was some trouble uploading my image to the contest. If I [...]
This past weekend, My Girlfriend and I trekked down the Niagara wine region to take advantage of the “Discovery Pass”. This was a $30 ticket that allowed you tastings at six (of a possible twenty-eight) wineries in the region on Friday and/or Saturday. Each of these tastings was accompanied by some sort of carefully selected [...]
The tour books are correct: walking out of the train station in Edinburgh gives you a view of the Castle almost immediately. It’s a welcoming entrance to the city.
We arrived in town, grabbed a taxi to the hotel, got settled, etc., however we didn’t end up going back downtown that night. In the morning, [...]
Almost seven years ago, my friend David and I went over to Europe on what was my first trans-Atlantic flight. On that trip, we visited London (UK), Bilbao (Spain) and Lisbon (Portugal) over a period of about three weeks. While I’ve done some traveling since then, last month I had the chance to return to [...]