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Travel Writer
Cherie Thiessen
FEATURES
- The Sun Also Rises
Love in the land of the rising sun
Second floor. A red light is blinking off and
on at a doorway indicating that the door to our fantasy for the next two hours is about to
be opened. We slip the key in and - tadaima - we have entered
A Japanese Love Hotel.
- Celebrating
the Light
The Pender Islands' Lantern Festival
At a quarter to five at the end of December, the light is fast disappearing at North Pender Island’s small community park on Magic Lake.
- The Hope Bay
Phoenix
In the early hours of February 23, 1998, many North Pender Island residents awoke to sirens. Those who lived near Hope Bay and looked out at the rosy glow tinting the night had further cause for alarm.
- Patagonia
Passage
I hold unto the side of the building to prevent the unrelenting Puerto Natales wind from turfing me onto the busy road.
- Two Souls
Departing
Cycling New Zealand's North Island
Maori legend has it that at the site of the famous pohutukawa tree located at Cape
Reinga, Maori spirits depart on their journey to their final resting place.
- Kingfisher Spa
Take some smooth sea stones from the beach and put them in the magic, reverential hands of a trained therapist.
- Going in Circles
Canal boating in Great Britain
There is no way in the world that Red Duke
is going to get through that gap under the bridge. Oh dear.
- 10 places to see
spectacular sunsets
Anywhere the promise of a beautiful sunset presents itself there is a hush over the land
and sea, people momentarily pause and life stills.
- Someone's Coming
Top ten skinny-dipping holes of B.C.
I dive for cover behind some rocks. My mother, a dignified 75, smiles
serenely at the startled couple
- Hiking The
Wonderland Trail
A peak experience on Mount Rainier
One hundred feet above the chasm, the Tahoma
Creek suspension bridge hung, narrow, 250 feet across, and swaying.
- Getting the Details Right
Sometimes a house is more than a home.
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