Articles

Coming of age in the Italian countryside
Traditional life thrives in Villavallelonga
Toronto Star, June 17, 2006
When I lived in Rome in my 20s, I would often escape to Villavallelonga on weekends in search of serenity, fresh mountain air and hearty peasant food.
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Canadian National Vimy Memorial Park
CBC News Online, April 9, 2004
As a young child I listened with fascination to my uncle's stories about his life as a soldier in the Second World War, his time spent in a POW camp in Sheffield, England and about the many wartime friendships he made and never forgot.
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Hiroshima: City of peace
CBC News Online, August 5, 2004
Apart from the skeletal Atomic Bomb Dome and a few disfigured citizens, there are few visible scars left in Hiroshima to remind us of the early morning bombing that took place Aug. 6, 1945, a day that saw the birth of the atomic age and a city of 200,000 razed by a single bomb.
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Kerry: A place made for tourists
Travel Courier - November 23, 1989
All Irish tours lead to Kerry, a county of lakes, mountains and an increasing number of tourist shops. But the people who visit yearly don't come solely for the handmade woollen sweaters, Irish china, crystal and linen. They come to play the championship golf courses in Killarney, Waterville, Ballybunion, Tralee and Lahinch or cycle through mountain towns.
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The Rise of the South
Travel Courier, May 30, 1990
Tourism in southern Italy still finds itself in an embryonic state because of incompetent bureaucrats and backward politicians.
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Somewhere Wild
Business Traveller, Oct. 1993
Ten dynamic meeting venues guaranteed to take a bite out of boredom.
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Doing Denmark
Family Practice, May 1995
If anything ever was rotten in the state of Denmark, it is no longer. Time has definitely healed the negative image Shakespeare stigmatized on this land of 5.1 million people.
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Museum recounts history of sex, sadism and sodomy
Family Practice, May 8, 1995
The study of anatomy takes on an acrobatic twist at Copenhagen's Museum Erotica. Plenty of flesh to see, but not touch.
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San Jose's many charms can lure non-adventurous
The Financial Post, June 19, 1993
The best part of travelling in Costa Rica, especially for non-adventurers, is the capital, San Jose.
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There's a side to Jamaica many tourists never see
The Financial Post, March 16, 1996
Montego Bay for the music and Negril for the skin, but for touch of serene peacefulness you must follow your compass to Jamaica's northeast coast to discover the sleepy town of Port Antonio.
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A traveller's guide to gratuities
Globe and Mail, 1993
Here's a tip. If in doubt leave a tip, even though many restaurants and hotels around the world don't encourage the practice.
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St. Lucia's Windjammer at the top of the upscale
Financial Post - February 17, 1992
It's a tiny speck on the map, yet for years St. Lucia has been a popular holiday spot for the rich and famous and for people who prefer natural beauty to the noisy nightlife of other Caribbean countries.
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Savoy stands out among Moscow hotels
Globe and Mail, Sept. 25, 1990
It's business as usual in Moscow these days. Unfortunately, that can mean inoperable phones, rude service and -- worst of all -- a shortage of hotel space.
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Third World countries finding ecotourism has double advantage
Toronto Star, 1993
Imagine waking up every morning at the crack of dawn, in a remote village in Latin America -- where the air is clean, the people sincere and the food fresh from the garden -- to milk the cow, feed the chickens and study termites in the glorious morning sun.
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Religious museum designed to provoke conversation
Toronto Star, Aug. 6, 1994
This city's newest attraction, The St. Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, offers visitors a cerebral alternative to the usual motley crew of historical museums and picture galleries.
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Estonia now
Travel Courier, May 23, 1990
Political change makes it more, not less appealing
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The best beds in Tallinn? That would be the Palace
Travel Courier, May 23, 1990
The Palace is the only four-star hotel in Tallinn and the most expensive.
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Seville's new look
Travel Courier, Feb. 21, 1990
There's nothing like a world Expo to rejuvenate a city, and that's exactly what's happening to Seville.
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Al-Andalus Expreso
Travel Courier, Dec. 7, 1989
Spain's restored luxury train, Al-Andalus Expreso, provides a truly first-class trip across the Spanish countryside.
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Italy: All about the three Fs and other things the brochures never tell you
Travel Courier, Nov. 23, 1989
All one will need travelling across Italy this year is a bit of money, a good map and definitely a great sense of humour.
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Just like Europe pensiones
Travel Courier, Jan. 17
San Franciscans would feel right at home in Europe because there, just as in their own city, one finds affordable hotels and good food.
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Belfast
Travel Courier, May 1989
If clients are looking for a thrill this isn't the city for it and being too adventurous would be unwise.
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Tiny Rome museum is shrine to 3 tempestuous English poets
Toronto Star, July 9, 1988
Two hundred years ago, Piazza di Spagna was the nerve centre for Britain's poets, artists and entertainers.
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Church flails 'sex' ads that lure Japanese
Travel Courier, Nov. 23
Illegal sex will run rampant on Caribbean islands if tourism authorities continue to use half-dressed women to entice Japanese tourists, a prominent churchman has charged.
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