Friday, September 11, 2009

Edinburgh goes high fashion

Scotland's got style. Photograph by Janie Robinson, Travel WriterThe 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

Friday, September 4, 2009

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.

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Story and video Going with the flow in New Hampshire

Summer in New Hampshire. Photograph by Janie Robinson, Travel WriterSpend 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!


Monday, July 6, 2009

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

Cycling the Tay Shore Trail. Photograph by Janie Robinson, Travel Writer 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

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Story and video Newfoundland-Spirits of the Vikings

Parks Canada interpreter, Clayton Colbourne.  Photograph by Janie Robinson, Travel Writer.Clayton Colbourne grew up playing with ghosts - the spirits of Vikings that lived on the grassy shores of of L'Anse aux Meadows fishing village more than 1,000 years ago. Join Janie Robinson as she follows the trail of Norse explorers on Newfoundland's remote Great Northern Peninsula. Read Janie's Toronto Star newspaper travel story Spirits of the Vikings and watch Janie Robinson's J-Walk Travel Media Production travel web video from Oslo, Norway Vikings Came First.


Saturday, May 23, 2009

Video - Norway Vikings

Residents of Oslo, Norway have always known that the Vikings arrived in North America before Christopher Columbus. They just had trouble proving it, until a Viking site was discovered in L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. Take a look at Janie Robinson's J-Walk Travel Media Production web travel video shot in Oslo, Norway  Vikings Came First.