Baden-Baden
BADEN-BADEN FLASHBACKS
This article originally appeared in the 2016 Winter Issue of Dreamscapes Magazine. Click here to see the original version I am here for the waters, but everywhere I turn, this…
HAMBURG: Germany’s Scandinavian City (Appeared in Ensemble Vacations).
How many travelers would guess that Hamburg is the second largest city in Germany, and one of the most affluent, with the second largest port in Europe, after Rotterdam. Unlike…
Exploring New York’s Finger Lakes
This article originally appeared on June 24, 2015 at vacay.ca. Click here to see the original version CANANDAIGUA, NEW YORK — Less than four hours by car from Toronto, the Finger Lakes is an…
Cartoon retrospective by Art Spiegeman at Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario
This article originally appeared on February 12, 2015 on examiner.com The massacre of four of France’s best-known cartoonists at the Charlie Hebdo offices sets an eerie stage for the retrospective…
London’s Hidden Neighborhood
Overshadowed by nearby Covent Garden and the theatre district, London’s Seven Dials never became a tourist destination. Yet the seven cobblestoned streets that radiate from a central square with a…
Primeval Algonquin Park
What is it about Ontario's breathtaking Algonquin Park , with its 7630 square kilometres of forests, lakes and rivers that resonates so strongly? There is something primeval here, hard to…
ANGUILLA – FANTASY ISLAND (appeared in NUVO Magazine)
I stepped out of my hotel room onto a near-empty beach with eggshell-coloured sand. About twenty steps later, I was in the pristine, turquoise waters of Meads Bay, on the…
San Francsico’s French Connection
San Francisco has always been a Francophile’s refuge. The French influence began with the city itself. Some of the first immigrants were Parisians feeling the uprising of l848. And of…
LUTETIA: the biography of an hotel (appeared in the Toronto Star)
In France writer Pierre Assouline is a literary star. He has a weekly column in the daily paper, LeMonde where he also writes the most popular literary blog in France. He has published…
Hotel Montmartre, Paris’ Literary Hotel
Montmartre Mon Amour Hotel Montmartre Mon Amour, Paris by Jacqueline Swartz The theme of Paris’ Hotel Montmartre Mon Amour, is love – or rather passion, expressed by celebrated French writers, singers and…