Britannia Mine Museum is a new industry member of the BC Association of Travel Writers. I make a visit. Just 55 kilometers north of Vancouver, and ten minutes south of Squamish, the Britannia Mine Museum is easy access along the scenic Sea to Sky Highway 99. At the site of what was once the largest copper-producing mine […]
British Columbia Travel Writers are thrilled to welcome Taste Vancouver Food Tours as a new industry member. Our host, Brent, takes us on Taste Vancouver’s Gastown Food Tour. In the warmth of red-brick-and-stone buildings (as was the by-law after Vancouver’s Great Fire of 1886) we taste our way down Water Street. From Waterfront Station’s first […]
Travel Writing Panels and Channels The annual British Columbia Association of Travel Writers (BCATW) Symposium 2016, ‘British Columbia: Too Beautiful for Words’ started with a tour of the New Westminster Museum & Archives. Simon Fraser spoke to me (well, it was his photo and a quote). His journals are the first account of the […]
10-steps from beer to blog A beer tour with Enthusiastic Emily at ‘big Rock Urban Brewery’ and a blogging Meetup with Marvelous Mari Kane who is the BCATW (BC Association of Travel Writers) webmistress and WordPress expert brought the two processes together. A barley grain of an idea. The yeast, the hops, the distilled water. […]
‘Tread softly, Write with Impact’ What TAKEAWAYS we had at the British Columbia Association of Travel Writers (BCATW) annual symposium! Sixty keen travel writers gathered at the Century Plaza Hotel in Vancouver, BC on April 18, 2015. ~This event had it all~ Good flow~ good food~ good folks~Great info~ Takeaways aren’t just sports lexicon for […]
BCATW Symposium 2015 Grand Prizes ‘T’is grand!’ as the Irish would say of all things green. When I set out to acquire prizes (and grand ones at that!) for the British Columbia Association of Travel Writers (BCATW) Symposium 2015, I was excited. I’ve had a long-term ECO-love towards small-scale businesses that conserve and educate with […]