Winter in Quebec City
By Dee Dee McKinney. Photos by Fred McKinney. Quebec City on the shores of the St. Lawrence, is magical in wintertime! The diversification of winter sports and activities rivals any other city in North America for winter sports. The city holds a renown Winter Carnival during February. Actives range from Ice Castles and sculptures to […]
Mont Tremblant, A Quebec Laurentian Dream
By Dee Dee McKinney. Photos by Fred McKinney. The Mont Tremblant Resort is located less than 1 1/2 hr north of Montreal, Canada. According to major ski and travel magazines, this is one of the premier Ski Resorts in North America, consistently earning the #1 Ski Destination Resort in the east. Impressive accolades are given […]
The Mont Blanc Glacier – Over, Under, and On Top
By Bob Enzel “Why have they taken down the ropes?” I asked. “Because people are stupid and they would try to climb down and probably fall,” responded our guide Bernadette. “Down” was 12,000 feet where we stood just below the Mont Blanc on the Aiguille Du Midi plateau during a end of summer visit. My […]
Golf In Atlantic Canada
The four provinces of New Brunswick, Newfoundland/Labrador, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island offer a number of top rated championship courses that should be of interest to East Coast golfers. It is reasonably priced; offers top-notch golf courses; and is easy to get to from New York, Boston, Washington, DC, Philadelphia and Detroit via Delta, […]
The Lighthouse Trail
If you’re a lighthouse fanatic Quebec should be on your list of travels. The Quebec Maritime has a neat little brochure-map identifying 43 lighthouses which separates them into two categories–those with and those without activities. Of the 18 with activities six provide sleeping accommodations and four also offer food. The Ile Verte lighthouse even has […]
Quebec City Summer Festival
By Bob Enzel The Festival runs from July 7-17, 2006 featuring the Grand Theatre de Quebec which presents a broad selection of classical and popular concerts; story telling by Fred Pellerin the top Quebecois story teller in a one-per-night-yarn… Check the food and festival our on www.infofestival.com/ And, while in Quebec check out the “Musee […]
PEI Golf Say, where exactly is PEI?
By Bob Enzel The temperature outside is 20 degrees and there is 3 inches of icy-snow on the ground. I’ve finished shoveling and chopping a path out and now I’m sitting around with a spiked hot chocolate thinking about warm weather in general and golf in particular. A month has passed and I’m back home […]
Singh Beats Weir by Four! Where?
By Bob Enzel Vijay Singh followed up on his second place finish in the Canadian Open to win by four strokes in match play over Mike Weir in the Make the Connection Legends of Golf Tournament. This one is already in the books and you probably didn’t even know it was played. Top Golfer’s Singh […]
