Downtown San José, Costa Rica on a beautiful sunny Sunday afternoon… ending with a nice cup of coffee with company of friends. 
What’s not to love about Chinatown? Stinky sidewalks with tons of people selling herbs, flowers, fruit, trinkets, rice cakes and anything else China. You can barely move, the smell of fish perfumes the sidewalks and pigs heads peep out of restaurant windows… a very different world than ours. The smells, the colours, the people, the history and the traditions, it’s the perfect place to people-watch and just soak in anything new and different from what you see every day back home. At night, the restaurants become busy and you just need to step in and be adventurous with a couple of funky smelling dumplings together with the worst service in town. They say Chinatown is concentrated human contact, its rude and direct, never apologizes or pretends… and this is why I love it so much!
Following, a little collection of photographs taken in Chinatown Toronto and Chinatown New York (photos by myself and Ed Klein)
So, as some of you might know, I’m chewing on the idea of flying up to Toronto for a few days. I found a great ticket deal online and the idea has been haunting me for days now. I really need some time off before the end of year and this just might be the time… thinking, thinking.
Anyway, since the idea will not let me sleep, or think about anything else for that matter… thought I’d go ahead and use my new photo gallery to post some pics of some of my past travels :o) Read the rest of this entry »
