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Summer Walks Around My City !!

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With summer touching the shores of Canada, the Northern polar hemisphere awakes from its slumber to take advantage of the beautiful warm weather. At this time of the year people walk a lot coupled together with biking and scooter rides thanks to the city tying up with an Los Angeles based company to promote an active city. Waterloo is a beautiful city filled with breath taking trailways, little rivulets and brooks that trickle their way through the city from their mother source The Laurel Creek which feeds the conservation centre and Waterloo's biggest summer attraction around the year. My husband and I both share a love of long walks amidst nature as your heart and mind are the calmest when you are one with Nature. We have taken many walks around our little city together and seem to have taken a love for all the little corners far from the madding crowd of Waterloo Public Square                                  The other day I chose to take my husband to the wonderful Waterl

Unearthing The History of a City !!

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A place is known by its history, its culture and its art and we as humans must learn to appreciate it. When I came to India one year later I chanced upon this hidden jewel in the Heart of Mumbai The Prince Of Wales Museum. It was built to commerate the visit of King Edward VIII. The facade of the museum on entering reminded me of a castle in Baghdad in ancient times. The Prince of Wales Museum is one of many stately buildings and structures left behind in the Kala Ghoda Area which has numerous remnants of an era gone by. The area itself which is quite a popular art district filled with art galleries and museums in modern Mumbai is named after and equestrian horse which was once ridden by king George V the then Prince of Wales. What interested me was the intricate architecture of these buildings which stood firm and tall even in the cruel hands of time.                                     The Prince of Wales museum exhibits an Indo-Saracenic style of architectu