First post of my #CmacSeesLondonCmacSeesFrance tour is from Rennes. Aside from the Trans Musicales festival, I got to do a little bit of wandering around this beautiful city, and the festival was gracious enough to put together a walking tour in English.

Things I learned:
- A LOT of Rennes burned down in a fire, and it was due, ironically, to a drunken carpenter
- Their market on the Saturday is amazing. You can buy practically anything, including oysters that they’ll shuck for you on the spot.
- You can eat and drink said oysters in public and it’s the greatest.
- There is a place called “Poutine Bros” that is decked out in Canadian stuff, and has menu items named after Rob Ford and Carey Price to name a few.

Recently I took a mini roadtrip to Comox, BC for their WinterBites festival. I ate and drank, listened to some great music, and had a grand ole time.

You can check out the blog post on Vancouver Is Awesome.

Above is a photo I took after a detour on my way to the ferry. I knew I had time, the sun was just coming up and there is a great lookout on the road up to Cypress Mountain. Vancouver is pretty.

So I got to FLY to Tofino (which was amazing) for this trip on Orca Airways…tiny little plane with awesome views of the islands.

The windows were tinted blue, and thus every photo out the window looked blue, but it gave it a very BBC-Blue-Planet-esque feel to it.

Here is the rest of the post on Vancouver Is Awesome…my favourite is the rental car, which I named Liam Nissan.

The article I shot photos for, for Vancouver Magazine are now online and in print! - “A Vegetarian Takeover”

It was a pretty awesome assignment…you can CLICK HERE to see the article in full, and I’ll be posting the link to the best veggie dishes in the city next!

(That photo at the top/the lead in the article is from Heirloom, the lovely restaurant by my house in South Granville!)