The total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 strafed North America with moments of darkness over major metropolitan areas. I traveled with a few friends to the Royal Military College in Kingston to watch the event on base. Everyone was Read more…
United ClubThe canteen-style seating reminds me of the cafeteria at the Library of Congress. Hard plastic chairs and white acrylic tables are easy to clean and in United colors. The wall has black-and-white photographs of heritage aircraft. I think color Read more…
Plaza Premium Lounge (near gate B15) Vancouver has one of the largest Plaza Premium Lounges in Canada. Its portfolio of East Asian airports and a focus on trans-Pacific travel made Vancouver a great place to put a large lounge. There’s Read more…
After the French stole this tract of land from indigenous people, the king granted it to Monseigneur François de Laval in 1674. In 1801, Joseph Papineau, a Lower Canadian legislator, bought the land and developed it. He sold it to Read more…
The University of Waterloo near downtown Waterloo, Ontario, was a child of an affiliate of Western University before it became its own thing to train engineers after the Second World War. Its technical programs were advanced for the 1960s when Read more…
In a small retail space in Waterloo‘s Conestoga Mall lives the City of Waterloo Museum. It’s the first museum I’ve been to that doesn’t have a permanent exhibition, the temporary exhibition changes every couple of months to keep things fresh. Read more…
It’s more a showroom for contemporary Canadian glass work and less a story of Canadian kilns. The only thing historic about the place is the little dioramas of kilns from around the world. I wish there was more to it; Read more…
Date: 2-5 September, 2023Location: Louisiana Distance: 764 km Up front: The cabin is quiet and refined—even on par with its German peers. However, its premium-economy grade of materials disappoints in the luxury segment; the dashboard and doorsill are cheap soft-touch plastics, Read more…
My visit to the textile museum was brief so I wouldn’t get ticketed for parking overtime in downtown Toronto. It’s nearby the Campbell House Museum so the two make a good geographical pairing. The main exhibition area showed Inuit textile Read more…
Its been half a decade since my first visit to the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto. I came by bus last time, but even though I drove this time I still had to transfer onto a shuttle bus to the Read more…