Tag: canada
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Jeju on Vancouver Island – Korean food in Tofino
After our last post on food in Korea, here we introduce a surprising find in Tofino on Vancouver Island – Jeju, a Korean restaurant at a far-flung corner of North America. The name of the restaurant – Jeju 濟州, is the largest island of South Korea and an extremely popular destinations for South Koreans and…
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Looking back at our trips in 2021-2022, Part 2
Happy New Year ! It is a tradition on this blog in January to take a look back at some of the places we visited in the previous year. Since we took some time off from this blog, we will review both 2021 and 2022 together. Our previous post covered most of the places we…
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A Night at the Fairmont Le Château Frontenac
Quebec city, Canada – a short trip taken over the weekend before Christmas 2011. By the time I arrived in Quebec city, it was quite late. The Jean Lesage airport is far given the small size of the city. It snowed the day before and it was freezing that evening. This castle-like building is the Fairmont Le…
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Airport hotels
In December last year (2011), I had two very short business trips each involving a stay at an airport hotel – here is the scenery or the lack thereof at my hotels. The first was in Amsterdam and our conference host chose this Park Plaza as a venue. Although it is supposed to be an…