Hyperlocal Travel: Get Outside, Safely
Honestly, I wasn’t sure there would be anything to say about local travel for this month’s column. As the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic became a stark real...
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Hyperlocal Travel: Be a Tourist in Your Own City
A 200-year-old Mennonite farmstead now surrounded by Kitchener’s urban core. A granite and limestone Scottish cottage in downtown Cambridge built in 1858. A ten...
Hyperlocal Travel: Local Pocket Adventures with Charlotte Clarke
As the snow piled up on a Saturday afternoon Charlotte Clarke and I parked on Shakespeare Drive, just a few houses west of Coleridge Drive in Waterloo’s Beechwo...
Hyperlocal Travel: Local Travel List for 2020
I just picked up a copy of “Explore Every Day” at Words Worth Books in Waterloo. It’s a brand new publication from Lonely Planet, the company synonymous with wa...
Hyperlocal Travel: Get to Know North Dumfries
Tim Barrie pointed out at least five different products in his Cedardale Farm store that have a direct connection to his family history on their North Dumfries ...
Hyperlocal Travel: Twilight Zoo
Here is October, with its early and suddenly dark evenings. Throw in the rustle of dry leaves and glossy shadows after an autumn rain, and the elements create a...
Hyperlocal Travel: Daytrippin’ to Six Nations of the Grand River
Summer is meant for road trips and this month I’m sending you on a learning journey to a place you might not have considered in your local travels: Six Nations ...
Hyperlocal Travel: Much T’Do In Stratford
A weekend destination doesn’t have to be far away to be a fun adventure. Stratford is just 50 km southwest of Kitchener-Waterloo and it has everything a travell...
Hyperlocal Travel: Getting Outside in a WR Winter
“How did I not know this trail existed?” my friend Laurie wondered.
In one small step, the GeoTime Trail in west Waterloo catapulted us from the Hadean eon int...