Story and video Janie's Royal Visit

Where I come from, when a guy invites you to join him for tea, and it's his birthday, you get him a card.  Turns out, it's not quite that simple if the guy happens to be His Royal Highness Prince Philip.  Here's my side of the story in my travel column in Simcoe Life Magazine The Royal treatment in Britain.  Watch  
Janie Robinson's J-Walk Travel Media Productions web video Janie's Royal Visit.

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

Story and video 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 Hey, did I just royally screw-up? and Janie's J-Walk Travel Media Production web video Janie's Royal Visit.

Story and video Going with the flow in New Hampshire

Spend summer on the waters of New Hampshire. You'll find a surprising seacoast, an historic canoe trail and much more in Janie Robinson's Toronto Star travel story Going with the flow in New Hampshire and Janie's J-Walk Travel Media Production web video Water, water everywhere!

Collingwood Elvis Festival

“Elvis has left the building.” That's because he heads to Collingwood every summer. Yes, there’s a Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin’ On at the Collingwood Elvis Festival July 23-26. There’s a whole lotta things going on in this gorgeous Georgian Bay getaway every weekend, as “ski country” melts away into “cottage country”. Janie Robinson has in Zoomer Magazine.

Bike back in time on Tay Shore Trail

It's a simple wooden bridge over the winding Wye River, along Southern Georgian Bay's new Tay Shore Trail, just an hour and a half north of Toronto. Cross the bridge on your bike, and cycle back in time in historic Huronia with Janie Robinson in this Toronto Star online story at www.thestar.com/travel/article/660001