Category Archives: places

Cathedral in Astorga, Spain

Astorga is just a small town but it has a huge cathedral. Here is a photo I took of the beautifully carved front facade.

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Toronto Travel: 5 Great Summer Outings

Toronto Travel: 5 great summer outings By Joel Garten, Originally published in the Huffington Post When the temperature rises in Toronto, Canada during the brief summer, I love to get out and enjoy some of these off-the-beaten track outings.   … Continue reading

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Ten Tips for a Happy Trip to Venice, Italy

This article I wrote on Venice Travel was just published in the Huffington Post Ten Tips for a Happy Trip to Venice, Italy By Joel Garten Venice is one of the most beautiful cities of Europe. Wandering down narrow, crumbling … Continue reading

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10 Tips for Travelling to Florence, Italy

This article I wrote on Florence Travel was just published in the Huffington Post 10 Tips for Travel in Florence, Italy By Joel Garten Florence is a beautiful, ancient city in Italy’s Tuscany region. Walking among buildings and churches that are … Continue reading

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View of Budapest across the Danube

I took this photo of Budapest around sunset, the sun illuminating this beautiful city.  The Danube river is the heart of the Budapest, the liquid highway that brought it wealth and a cosompolitan connection to the outside world.  It also … Continue reading

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Architecture, Brussels, Belgium

Across the street from where I stayed in Brussels was this very modern addtion to quite an old building. The view from my window!  I had a roof view.

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Edward’s Gardens, Toronto

beautiful overview of the park.  They have gardening and horticulture classes at this park. Giant banana It takes a lot of flowers to do this type of planting.

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Vivian Reiss painting the sheep

Vivian Reiss is well known for her series of paintings of sheep.  Here she is painting sheep on a farm near Roseneath, Ontario.

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Church in Ghent, Belgium

A beautiful church in Ghent, Belgium. I loved walking around this church, it had a very light airy feeling, which I found in churches in Belgium and Netherlands, as they like to paint the interiors white.

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Night time in Bruges, Belgium

Bruges is an extremely beautiful and ancient city of canals, churches and houses.  Walking along the canals at night is extremely peaceful and beautiful.

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Antwerp Train Station

Here is the beautiful Antwerp train station

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Beautiful Park “Jardin du Mont Des Arts”, Brussels, Belgium

This park called Jardin du Mont Des Arts in French is located where the hill where the royal castle is built descends into the old town.  It is a beautifully landscaped park, and the flute player looks a lot like some of the … Continue reading

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1600 year old olive tree, Greece

This tree is at the ancient Greek and Roman site of Gortys/Gortyna, on the island of Crete.  This tree started growing 1600 years ago, which coincided with an earthquake which hit the site.  A Byzantine church was destroyed in the … Continue reading

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Monastery in Greece

This is a monestary I visited in Greece.

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Toronto’s new Sugar Beach park

Toronto’s newest beach is the sweetly named Sugar Beach, located next to the Redpath Sugar plant. It has cheerful pink beach umbrellas and white sand. The shade of pink in the umbrellas is slightly purple-y, which is quite lovely. A … Continue reading

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