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For Roads and Kingdoms: Finding the Perfect Cocktail and the Perfect Retirement Goals in One Day
I first spotted the curious restaurant while walking with my mom along the waterfront just north of Nice, France. Perched on a tiny rock pillar out in the sea, it was impossible to miss. But it was not a day for lingering, so we walked on, climbed up onto Mont Boron and then back down to the neighboring town of Villefranche-sur-Mer, striding past hillside homes and kitchen gardens, where chickens lounge away their days under the shade of olive and citrus trees.
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For PAXnewsWest: TravCorp showcases the culinary side of Thailand
The Travel Corporation and the Tourism Authority of Thailand hosted a media dinner in Vancouver last night to celebrate a new season of Thailand itineraries from TTC's brands.
Citing Tourism Industry Association of Canada statistics showing that 35 per cent of current travel is based on culinary tourism, and 50 per cent of travellers say food influences their travel decisions, The Travel Corporation made food the prime focus of the evening – from the family-style Thai dinner to the presentation by Instagram food photographer and cookbook author Dennis Prescott.
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For Roads and Kingdoms: A Tiny Beer Is the Perfect Escape Hatch for Bad Bars and Bad Dates
I'd been in Madrid for a week, and I hadn't yet fallen in love. With the city, I mean. I was there with my husband—and I fell in love with him more than 10 years ago. But this city, it just didn't want to let us in…
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For YP Dine: Vancouver's best rooftop patios
After a long, soggy Vancouver winter that drizzled its way right into spring, there's nothing to perk up Vancouverites' spirits like a sunny afternoon on a rooftop patio. A glimpse of the city's killer views from any one of these perched hotspots makes all those rainy days seem like a distant memory. Grab a seat for your dose of vitamin D.
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Fodor’s Travel Vancouver & Victoria Guidebook
Canada Day seems an appropriate time to share that the new Fodor’s Travel Vancouver & Victoria guidebook is out! I had a delicious time working on the Where to Eat section for Vancouver.
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For PAXnewsWest.com: Visit San Jose highlights wine and tech tourism in Vancouver
Representatives of Visit San Jose met with travel media in Vancouver last week for a wine-themed dinner to highlight the region's unique tourism opportunities as a top-notch wine region on the doorstep of Silicon Valley.
Over glasses of award-winning wine from Ridge Vineyards in the Santa Cruz Mountains, PAX spoke with Laura Chmielewski, Visit San Jose's vice president of marketing and communications, about this forward-looking Northern California destination…
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For the Vancouver Courier: Street art goes mainstream in Houston, Texas
They say that everything's bigger in Texas.
In Houston, that's certainly true of the hats, the boots and the servings of barbecue. But the saying also applies to an unexpected public art program that's taking over the streets of downtown. Recently, 100 international artists transformed 20,000 square feet of wall space into city-sanctioned street art for the second annual Houston Urban Experience (HUE) Mural Festival. Add that to the 25 walls painted for the inaugural festival last year, and it's clear that there's a Texas-sized appetite for street art in H-Town…
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News reporting for REW.ca
I've recently wrapped up a two-week stint covering a staff vacation at REW.ca, the online arm of Real Estate Weekly. Here are the stories:
- A Quarter of Canadian Home Buyers Plan to Buy Alone: Survey
- Action Needed to Increase Housing Affordability: Reports
- Vancouver Home Prices Up Yearly but Down Quarterly: Survey
- BC Home Sales Down 21.8% From Record Set Last March: BCREA
- BC Green Party Plans Major PTT Changes, Expanded Foreign Buyer Tax
- Vancouver One of Canada's Best Cities to Buy Real Estate: Study
- 36% of BC Residents Expect Home Prices to Rise this Year: RBC Poll
- Spring to Bring 4,500 New Presale Condo Units to Lower Mainland Market: MLA Advisory
- Metro Vancouver Calls for "Urgent Overhaul†of BC's Property Tax System