A lovely Toronto summer weekend. On Friday I was homebound by the laundry machine, but Anne came around and cooked a lovely stir fry. We watched the Buster Keaton classic “The General” and had a quiet evening. Saturday she went off to have her hair done, and I did some miscellaneous shopping. The plan had […]
Just back in from Hartford. The city centre is all of eight square blocks, and everything shuts at the end of the business day except a couple of restaurants and the hotels. Not much to do but work. Still, it’s not so bad: there’s some lovely colonial architecture, we’re right across the street from the […]
Well, what to say? I’ve had a wonderful, wonderful weekend with my new sweetie Anne Macdonald. She’s amazing. I’m SO happy! Yesterday we had a great afternoon at High Park with Craig and Susan. I picked up a Frisbee and a soccer ball and we alternated tossing the ‘bee (and sweating like mad, it was […]
The choir trip photos are here! I’ve lumped them all into one category: sheer laziness, I’m afraid. Having a great lazy weekend, in preparation for going down to Hartford next week to start my new project there. I went with Anne to the Bellevue Diner in Kensington last night, a great restaurant run by her […]
Having just returned from Russia I recalled a really cool set of photos I saw on the web last year. They’re full colour photos taken by Tsar Nicholas II’s court photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii in 1907 – 1915. Quite spectacular. I tracked them down again in the Library of Congress’ web site, and here they […]
Thursday, July 25, 2002 07:30 Location: SAS Lounge, Helsinki Airport Weather: Overcast Well, the trip’s basically over so I guess this will probably be my last post about it for a while. I’ve been negligent in writing even my paper copy of the journal the last couple of days, so I may have to gloss […]
Monday, July 22, 2002 Location: Brasserie restaurant, Ramada Hotel, Helsinki Weather: Cloudy & warm On Sunday morning we got up late and once again hit the breakfast buffet. I felt in no hurry to get out and see Tallinn, but packed up by suitcase and spent some more time on the hotel’s comupter and wrapping […]
[The missing post! Forgot to write this one up at the time…] 15:50 Location: Sun deck of the ferry m/s Romantika Weather: Overcast & cool Saturday morning we got up at 8 a.m. and went down for a wonderful breakfast buffet in the Hotel Viru’s restaurant. I delighted in a hardboiled egg and some tasty […]