We are into our eighth country of our journey and it has been an interesting nugget. Uruguay…I really had no idea about you. All I knew was that you could see Uruguay from Buenos Aires, so why not visit before we made it to Argentina’s capital, right? But did you know said river, Rio de…
Hello there. This is Ewan at the helm for a post about the outstanding street art here in Valparaiso. We’d heard from a few people before arriving about the abundance of graffiti and I was excited. As you may know I’ve only written two previous posts for the blog and they were both on the…
We’ve been in Bogota for five days now and will soon be jetting away to explore Cartagena. In all honesty, we could have done all the things we’d wanted to in two, max three, days. But it was nice to get a feel for this city. It was good to take things slow and really…
This past weekend was Toronto’s 8th Nuit Blanche; the sunset to sunrise event of art installations around the downtown core. This was my 4th and Ewan’s 3rd since moving to the city; our first was in 2009 when we’d only be living here for a few months. We were blown away with the transformation of…
Last weekend we explored a small sliver of the colourful side of Toronto. After a relaxing picnic in Trinity Bellwoods Park we wandered a nearby alley where the artists were at work on some pieces. We continued our tour, ending with what Torontonians refer to as ‘Graffiti Alley’.
I had another work trip this past week that took me out of the province and to Winnipeg. It had been a long time since I had spent much time in the Peg, and with some family in town I extended my time to do some visiting and sight-seeing.
Because of our switch from overnight train to a quick plane-ride, we were in Beijing a night earlier then planned, so spent it at a very low end hotel near the airport (100% Perfect Hotel…a little less perfect in reality…). After a short sleep we woke up to the best day of the year –…