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Here are some links to help make your Olympic experience excellent and event packed. Its a great time to be a tourist in your our awesome city; there is so much going on! From ticketed events to free events to the Cultural Olympiad. google map of opening day torch route google map of venues Vancouver [...]

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Ahhh! My buddy has gone back to Zihuatanejo, Mexico and I ain’t there! My other buddy is in Sayulita and I ain’t there! I am supposed to be there in the warm place where fond, exciting, sometimes fuzzy, visually stunning memories are made. Most of my photos are in storage from this trip but I [...]

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This is the former monastery now converted to the Cultural Museum of Oaxaca, full of interesting colonial and pre-Columbian art and artifacts. It is adjoined to the Santo Domingo Church (building commenced in 1572 by Dominican friars). Someone there informed me that the monastery was acquired by the military during revolutionary wars and also used [...]

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We were strolling down a hot street in the Mexican port city of Mazatlan, tired of looking at churches, sightseeing French influences in architecture and yet-another-museum, the thirst was getting to us, it was 11am. Thoughts of holiday beers in the morning simultaneously pop into our minds, we looked at each other knowingly. Dean hears [...]

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So I was doing some research for a buddy on the restaurant and bar scene in Budapest and came up with something that I had never heard of before, Kerts, the literal translation is ‘garden’. Mostly seasonal except for the more established ones like Szimpla Kert(in the Jewish quarter of Pest also a cinema), these [...]

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I’ve broken my farthest-east-I’ve-ever-been record of Lethbridge Alberta, to Moosomin Saskatchewan. That is what 1750 airmiles will get you with Westjet Airlines. Off to the flat lands! Someone had the bright idea that we should bring seafood to the prairie folk/family we were visiting. That meant bringing ice through the security check? No way José, [...]

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My friends G+G and I got a cheap white rental car(with insurance) in Playa Del Carmen and escaped heading west to Merida. We eat our breakfast pizza pie? from the local bakery pondering on the roots of this culinary wonder, well I guess there are a lot of Italian tourist that go to Playa. We [...]

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Noodles noodles noodles, I can never eat enough noodles, in broth, in miso, in curry, fried with thick sweet soy, deep fried topped with a mountain of veg, fried by a South Indian man, fried by a street hawker, made with well water from only one city in the world, pulled, cut or rolled, noodles [...]

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Summer is almost here and its time to plan another island getaway to our buddy’s house. We flew last time and let me tell you 1 hour total beats the 5 hour ferry expedition. Don’t get me wrong, I love BC ferries, great scenery, lots of fresh air and ferry food hmmm. But flying is [...]

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