Fontaine Boréale – Complexe Desjardins – Montréal
Me and the little kids can’t get enough of this water show.
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Category: travel
real time language translation
I like my Apple EarPods. These are similar but better. Volume control on the earbud.
But here’s the killer feature.
You’ll be able to walk up to nearly anybody in another country and hold a fluid, natural language conversation without the need for pantomime and large hand gestures, or worry of offending with a mispronunciation. …
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Montreal in 2 minutes
Tourists — including me — always seem to have a good time in Montreal.
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Montreal Botanical Garden – Gardens of Light
September 8, 2017 to October 31, 2017
James and I enjoyed this light show presented close to the Olympic stadium. One ticket gets you into the Insectarium and gardens.
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Grande Bibliothèque, Montreal
I worked all day yesterday in the huge downtown library, part of Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec(BAnQ), Quebec’s national library.
In 2011 it attracted 2.7 million visitors, and was the most frequented public library in North America.
I hope to live long enough to visit the planned new Calgary downtown library.
visiting Camp Borden, Ontario
Hiking the Bruce Peninsula, I happened to see Camp Borden nearby on my map.
I drove there immediately because of a family connection.
Canadian Forces Base Borden (also CFB Borden) … is home to the largest training wing in the Canadian Armed Forces. …
During the Second World War, both Camp Borden and RCAF Station Borden became the most important training facility in Canada, housing both army training and flight training …
I toured the Military Museum. Then the Camp Borden Tim Hortons.
My camera disappeared somewhere there. Otherwise I’d have more photos.
The Bridge (U.S. TV series) – season 2
I loved season 1 and had high expectations for season 2.
Many critics liked season 2 better. I found it muddled. Disjointed. There were too many characters. Plot too fuzzy.
Still … for me it was well worth watching. But I’m not surprised there was no season 3.
I’ll next watch Bron, Broen … the Scandinavian crime television series on which this American version was based. It’s headed into it’s 4th season.
The Bridge (U.S. TV series)
Important issues in the era of Trump’s hateful America.
Yes, there are detectives and, yes, there is a killer. But the true mysteries of The Bridge lie in the great swaths of land and stories surrounding the U.S.-Mexico border. …
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The Bridge is an American crime drama television series … based on the Danish-Swedish series Broen/Bron. …
The show stars German actress Diane Kruger and Mexican actor Demián Bichir in pivotal roles. …
The complete series consists of two seasons of 13 episodes each. The series debuted on FX in the United States on July 10, 2013, and the series finale aired on October 1, 2014. …
The American version takes place on the U.S. and Mexican border where a murdered body on a bridge between El Paso and Juárez (the Bridge of the Americas) bring together El Paso detective Sonya Cross (Kruger) who is mentored by Hank Wade (Levine) and Chihuahua State police detective Marco Ruiz (Bichir). …
Detective Sonya Cross has undiagnosed Asperger’s syndrome or a similar autism spectrum disorder. She’s awesome. Meticulous, direct and prickly. No empathy.
Many of the minor characters are excellent too. Casting is great.
Cult-figure Steven Linder (Tom Wright) is my favourite. Wright’s been compared to Daniel Day-Lewis.
Linder believes that he has a calling to help people, including the women and girls in Ciudad Juarez, hundreds of whom have been killed or disappeared since 1993.
I got the series from Warren. And will continue watching season 2. And then the Danish-Swedish version.
what I did on my Summer vacation
I’m actually working a lot this summer. Gymnastics video editing. Gymnastics clinics and camps. I won’t get free until mid-September.
But I did get a week in a rent-a-car doing some of the best hikes Squamish to Pemberton. Those trip reports over on my hiking blog.
McCharles family to Mexico November 2017
In 2006 my Mom announced this would be the last family vacation.
Last year – 10 years later – we returned to Mazatlan. And had a great time.
Lets do it again. Late November, early December 2017 … again in Mazatlan.
Rick McCharles 