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Friday 25 December 2015
Thursday 24 December 2015
Monday 14 December 2015
Thursday 20 August 2015
We went Steampunking last weekend!!!
"Steampunk refers to a subgenre of science fiction and sometimes fantasy that incorporates technology and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery. Although its literary origins are sometimes associated with the cyberpunk genre, steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the 19th century's British Victorian era or American "wild west", in a post-apocalyptic future during which steam power has maintained mainsteam usage or in a fantasy world that similarly employs steam power. It may, therefore, be described as neo-Victorian. Steampunk perhaps most recognisably features anachronistic technologies or retro-futuristic inventions as people in the 19th century might have envisioned them, and is likewise rooted in the era's perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, and art. Such technology may include fictional machines like those found in the works of H.G. Well and Jules Verne, or the modern authors Philip Pullman, Scott Westerfeld, Stephen Hunt and China Mieville. Other examples of steampunk contain alternative history-style presentations of such technology as lighter-than-air airships, analogue computers or such digital mechanical computers as Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine." (Wikipedia)
(my new screen saver!!!!)
Mark your calendars!! Second Saturday in August -
Coldwater Steampunk Festival
Coldwater, Ontario
(in the meantime, I think I'm going corset shopping!)
Wednesday 12 August 2015
Winnipeg - The Canadian Museum for Human Rights
("Welcome Wall", ground floor of the museum.)
If there was one, well, disappointment, on our rail trip across Canada, it was The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg.
Not that we were disappointed with the Museum - we were disappointed we didn't have time to actually get "into" the Museum!
One of the great perks of taking The Canadian across Canada is the various stops along the way. The Canadian makes regular stops to take on supplies, switch out crews, etc. in places like Hornepayne, Sioux Lookout, Saskatoon and Jasper. If the train is stopped long enough, and you're awake (some stops happen in the wee hours of the morning!), you can get off the train and do a little exploring. Stops last anywhere from twenty-five minutes to three hours.
On our particular trip, the stop in Winnipeg was about three hours - 8 until about 11 - 11:30 a.m.
We were able to not only leave the train, but the Winnipeg Via station as well.
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is literally, at the edge of the Via station parking lot.
But, if memory serves, we had to be back in the station to re-board the train at about 10:30 - 10:45 a.m.
And The Museum did not open it's doors until 10 a.m. Which only left us about 20 minutes to see everything the museum had to offer! Disappointing to be sure!
We did beat a path into the lobby of the museum just after it opened and were lucky enough to gain the sympathetic ear of several tour guides and docents, who after we explained our situation, gave us a condensed, "lobby" tour of basically, everything we would be missing!
Let's just say, The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is now on the bucket list!!!
Wednesday 29 July 2015
..... and when you get bored staring out the window at the fabulous
Canadian scenery, here's what the Via chefs are cooking up.
You can be bored staring out the dining car window
gnoshing on, say, Maple Glazed Chicken, Lobster Ravioli,
Salmon Rose or maybe a little Pan Seared Duck ....
... with your choice of wine, of course!
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