Oh Canada

I’m about to get an annual fix of Canadian information at the Canada Media Marketplace , an event sponsored by the Canadian Tourism Commission, designed to familiarize U.S. travel media with our neighbors to the north.

Canada is a familiar territory here on Perceptive Travel. Just recently, Sheila made maple candy in Edmonton, Kerry wrote beautifully about Cape Breton . As for me, I went through a big Toronto phase a little while ago, which I find to be a great city to shop for accessories.

I have a hat from Liliput that I still get compliments on, because it complements my big giant head . One of my favorite museums anywhere is Toronto’s Bata Shoe Museum. (As a sidenote, I’m actually pretty amused at how my thoughts of men have changed in the just over two years since I wrote about Bata. I actually thought about how men accessorize as an intellectual exercise. Now I think about men much more, and in a much different way .)  Shoes are intensely political though, and I intend to cover the next U.S. presidential election solely on that basis.

I’ve encountered pink critters in Calgary ,the Titanic, surrounded by ducks , in Halifax, and that’s before I got really surreal in Vancouver .  I look forward to my next encounters north of the border.