After my explorations in Windsor, I had about an hour and a half to explore Detroit on my own before my scheduled driving tour of the city With its impressive 20th century architectural heritage, Detroit had long fascinated me and I was going to take the next four days to explore this city up close

One of the main reasons I had come to Detroit was the fantastic architecture that this city has to offer Detroit celebrated its heyday in the early 20th century when the automobile industry took off, and car ownership became available to everyday people

Finally it was time for another excursion As a true architecture buff, Detroit had been on my radar for a long time, and I definitely wanted to explore this unique city in detail

After having learned so much about architecture during my morning walking tour of downtown Detroit, we embarked on another urban discovery: a walking tour through Brush Park, one of Detroit’s historic residential areas with a location very close to downtown Bob Goldsmith, our local expert from Detroit Tour Connections, met us at 97 Winder Street, location of a recently restored bed and breakfast, and started explaining the history of the area to us

My discoveries of Detroit were slowly but surely coming to an end, and I had seen so many interesting places already in my whirlwind tour over the last four days Just before I was ready to hop across the border to Windsor again, I had one more adventure on my schedule: a biking tour of Southwest Detroit to cover Corktown and Mexicantown

My first three days in Austria had already been action-packed, full of hiking excursions and culinary delights My next adventure was going to be a full-day driving tour with my friend Gary, who had also grown up in Austria, but, like me, had emigrated to Canada more than 40 years ago

For several months now I had been planning another trip to Europe, to visit my family in my home town in Austria, as well as to spend eleven days on the beautiful island of Mallorca and three days in the fascinating Czech capital of Prague, both destinations I had long wanted to visit On May 15, 2009 I finally landed in Graz, after an uneventful flight from Toronto via Düsseldorf

Today was our relocation day: we moved from our vacation apartment in Solana Beach in San Diego to the chic Sofia Hotel in downtown San Diego On another brilliant day we arrived at the hotel at about 10 am, but our room was not ready yet, so we decided to embark on some brief local explorations

In early December of 2007 I decided to embark on a three day winter getaway to Niagara Falls, Ontario In order to explore the city in the best possible way I contacted the experts at Niagara Falls tourism to help me work out a comprehensive itinerary to explore the many facets of Niagara Fall

Yesterday morning my last full day in Niagara Falls, Ontario, had arrived After a packed schedule the day before that had included a wonderful presentation at the Imax Theatre, my up-close encounter with the Great Falls at the Journey Behind the Falls and an entertaining show at the Oh Canada Eh