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Julian has written articles on Middle Eastern and European architecture for the US magazine Skipping Stones. He has written travel articles that were published in The Toronto Globe and Mail, Fate Magazine, National Catholic Register, and Northwest Travel. Julian has also written articles for the In The Know Traveler, Go Nomad, InTravelmag, and Go World Travel websites.
Julian blogs about travel on the In The Know Traveler website and about football (soccer) on TheBigSoccer website.
He has also taken many photographs that have appeared in travel guides by National Geographic, Thomas Cook and The Rough Guides.
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Vancouver, Canada - There has been a lot of negative publicity regarding the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, but a day visit to Whistler went very well.
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Although most of the parties involved in the Northern Ireland troubles have now laid down their arms, there are still Republican dissidents who carry on the fight for a united Ireland.
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The Copenhagen Climate Talks showed that most politicians are unwilling to tackle Global Warming by implementing policies that will cut carbon emissions and reduce their carbon footprint.
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Barack Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize today, barely two weeks after announcing he will be sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. Unfortunately, accepting the prize was about the only gesture to tradition he made.
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During the 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler, no spectator parking will be allowed in the entire village. Similar restrictions will apply at Whistler Creekside, The Whistler Sliding Centre, and the Whistler Olympic Park in the Callaghan Valley.
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The Olympic legacy is being felt even before the 2010 Winter Olympics have begun. Cuts in the Arts and the closure of popular tourist attractions shows how tight money is.
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The governing body of European Football, UEFA, introduced its Betting Fraud Detection System (BFDS) in July 2009. This program has been monitoring all matches in the top two tiers of every European league for irregular betting patterns since that time.
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The last six FIFA World Cup qualifiers were decided on a big day of soccer.
Four qualifiers came via the play-offs from the European Qualifying section of the World Cup.
Algeria qualified after beating Egypt and Uruguay defeated Costa Rica.
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The race is on to see who will partner Lewis Hamilton at McLaren for the 2010 F1 Grand Prix season. Will it be Kimi Raikkonen the 2007 World Champion or Jenson Button the 2009 World Champion?
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Attending the APEC summit in Singapore, Barack Obama has backed a plan to put off the tough decisions on climate change until next year at the earliest. These decisions should have been made at the upcoming Copenhagen climate change talks in Denmark.
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I went to the Remembrance Day service in front of City Hall in New Westminster, British Columbia on Nov. 11, 2009. There seemed to be about 1,000 people in attendance with all age groups well represented.
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It is hoped that organizers of the 2010 Winter Olympics have paid more attention to detail than the people who created content on the Vancouver2010.com website.
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The third phase of ticket sales for the Vancouver/Whistler 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics was delayed by one week because of a configuration problem on the ticket sales website.
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Boris Johnson is the mayor of London. During his campaign for this important elected post, Johnson made youth crime one of his key priorities. How ironic then that a recent gallant act of his may show that those policies are not having much effect yet.
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Google's PowerMeter will allow you to monitor how much electricity your home is using, even when you are on holiday on the other side of the world.
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On October 22nd, two British government ministers launched a new map of the world at the opening of a major exhibition at the Science Museum in London, UK.
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As the news breaks that Shell has been given the go ahead to drill in the Beaufort Sea, albeit with restrictions, a study has found how much effect global warming is having on the other side of the Arctic in Baffin Island.
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With the Winter Olympic now less than four months away, traffic and parking restrictions in downtown Vancouver are beginning to come into effect. Their aim is to reduce the 55,000 daily journeys into downtown by 30 percent before the Olympics begin.
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Dr Mark Jaccard of Simon Fraser University and Ian Bruce of the David Suzuki Foundation each gave a lecture at New Westminster Public Library on Tuesday, October 13th on the importance of combating Climate Change.
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The Vancouver International Film Festival takes place between October 1 and 16. One of the most talked about events was the British film The Age of Stupid, starring the Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite.
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