Best Newspaper Feature Award-Canada

Janie Robinson is honoured to win the Caribbean Tourism Organization's Best Newspaper Feature Award-Canada, for her "Special Delivery Via The Mail Boat" story in the Toronto Star newspaper. If you missed Janie's award winning travel story featuring the mailboat ride to the tiny island of Mayreau, here's a look online at www.thestar.com/Travel/article/502674

Jump Up with St. Croix moko jumbies

The colourful art of moko jumbie stilt dancing came to the Caribbean with enslaved West Africans, who brought their culture and indigenous religions with them. Janie Robinson and Greg McFadden join the lively, lofty dancers in today's Toronto Star story and video... www.thestar.com/travel/caribbean/article/715400--moving-to-the-beat-of-a-towering-cultural-icon#video

Czech Spa treatment in the bag

Huddled alone in my turtleneck sweater and very little else, the spa attendant returned with a big blue bag in one hand and a big black strap in the other. Discover how this Czech Republic spa session turns out to be a real gas, in Janie Robinson's Toronto Star travel story online at www.thestar.com/travel/europe/article/710225--a-spa-where-wellness-truly-is-in-the-bag

Video-Janie's Royal Visit

Janie Robinson's Royal Visit video and Britain travel stories are online at the Toronto Star www.thestar.com/videozone/663568--a-visit-to-buckingham-palace and at Simcoe Life Magazine online at http://www.simcoelife.ca/sitepages/?aid=1255&cn=Travel&an=The%20Royal%20treatment%20in%20Britain%20-%20Deals%20await%20the%20frugal%20traveller%20

Cuba's old town a true charmer

Trinidad de Cuba may look like a movie set, but the old town is a real city centre where everyday Cubans live and work. Janie Robinson discovers the colonial charm of Trinidad and Old Havana while visiting the casa particulares (Cuban version of a bed-and-breakfast) and paladares (small family run restaurants) in her Toronto Star story in the Saturday, October 10, 2009 Travel section. www.thestar.com/travel/caribbean/article/710751--cuba-s-old-town-a-true-charmer

Edinburgh goes high fashion

The vibrant Italian fashion fantasyland of Edinburgh's new Hotel Missoni is hard not to notice in the middle of Scotland's traditional capital. Janie Robinson checks out (no pun intended) the newest fashion hotel and discovers luxury travel deals luring us to sample specials at high-end hotels and restaurants throughout Britain in her Toronto Star travel story at www.thestar.com/article/690047

Screwing up royally?

Not every visitor to London gets inside Buckingham Palace. Even fewer get a chance to meet Prince Philip.
Janie Robinson shares what to do - and not to do - when visiting royalty in her Toronto Star story and web video at www.thestar.com/travel/europe/article/690668