travel beyond the obvious
Some Toronto subway stations are beautiful, bright, well-designed, and artful. Others look as if they haven’t been updated since the system was first developed in 1954. Of course, there are also plenty that fall somewhere Read More …
Along with a couple of workshops, TBEX also had a large number of tours available prior to the conference, with options that included beer tasting, urban development, specialty foods, and graffiti. Because my spouse registered Read More …
The Distillery District is currently one of Toronto’s new hip neighborhoods where bars, restaurants, and galleries line the streets and new housing is going up all around (everything in Toronto goes up, as the city Read More …
The modernist Toronto-Dominion Bank complex houses what feels like a secret gallery.This is the Toronto-Dominion Gallery of Inuit Art, which includes 200 pieces of exceptionally fine Inuit art. Most of the pieces on display were Read More …
I went to the TBEX (Travel Blogger Exchange) new media (travel blogging and more) conference for the first time last year when it was in Keystone, Colorado. That was a fabulous conference and I’ve been Read More …
There are clues that something amazing awaits within even before you enter Brookfield Place in downtown Toronto. (Hint: Look up.) This would be just another of many towering downtown office/commercial centers were it not for Read More …
My spring 2013 visit to Toronto was a revelation: I discovered an attractive, vital city where I remembered only a concrete desert of hulking buildings, parking lots, and highways. Ok, I also recall wonderful paintings Read More …
Here’s the answer for all of you with limited counter space – suspend your bar from the ceiling!< (Taken inside Brookfield Place in downtown Toronto.) This is my contribution to Travel Photo Thursday at Nancie’s Read More …
Ki is an upscale Japanese restaurant with several locations in Canada, including one in Brookfield Place in downtown Toronto. It’s hard to miss if you happen to be in the area: If you’re outside you’ll Read More …
Pictures of Toronto seem to focus on the CN Tower and the modern glass skyscrapers that dominate the skyline. However, that is only part of Toronto’s architectural story (and a recent part at that!). Throughout Read More …
I fall in love with Toronto’s Distillery District the moment I spot it a few blocks ahead through the bus window. My new love doesn’t disappoint. We are greeted by interesting restored buildings – the Read More …
This year TBEX held an evening event at Shopsy’s on Toronto’s Centre Island. Oddly, I’d not been particularly excited about this party. While most of Centre Island is actually park land, it also has an Read More …
The TBEX conference in Toronto, Canada, got down to business Saturday morning, starting off with an opening keynote (with slides) by HDR photographer extraordinaire Trey Ratcliff. (Even if you don’t know who he is, you Read More …
Friday evening – after the workshops and tours, but prior to the opening of main conference at TBEX – brings the always greatly anticipated opening party. It was held at Roy Thompson Hall, home to Read More …
I am in Toronto for this year’s TBEX travel blogging conference and my first conference activity is a guided photo walk led by Toronto photographer David Goorevitch.The group is too large (25 of us were Read More …