To Help Urban Fitness Events Make Leaders in Toronto

As time goes by, I tend to venture out too far ahead of myself until all my new ideas seem unrealistic.  So it helps to take a day off and travel around and clear my head.  On such occasions I pursue my hobbies, and my passion for history and my love of finding rare antiques and collectibles (while digging in old dumps, or rummaging through cluttered antique shops) are my primary escape mechanisms.  As the author of Dumpdiggers antiques blog I often get invited to speak on camera or contribute some ideas to the nature and evolution of collecting antiques on the web.

So I ventured outside my apartment on Monday March 12 2012; I left my 565 sq ft condominium apartment in The Distillery District of downtown Toronto, which is literally a glass box. This is the place where I spend most of time , a prison of my own making. Some days the only things I produce are original thoughts, and I’m always working on improving the packaging.

Dumpdiggers blogger Rob Campbell discusses what makes an old thing into an antique, and what makes an antique thing worth buying. Antiques as an investment = a terrible idea.

To my great satisfaction, my capacity for clever notions has not diminished over the years, and other people are now starting to take notice and listen to my ideas.  Some of them are veteran TV producers.

Here I am getting interviewed for a television show;  truth be told its an audition, and if I get the part it could be good fun.  The guy running the camera is a big TV star himself,  and he was coaching me and that always helps.

After that bold performance, which honestly I hope I never see, I had a Chester Chicken dinner from the Crossways Mall at Dundas St and Bloor which I ordered to go.

Urban Warrior Race on 8th Sept 2012, is Toronto Half Marathon with Obstacles

So I ate that boney fried Chester Chicken at my next stop, and the smell must have certainly impacted the generic aroma of the otherwise sterile offices of DEVAN atmospheric marketing in west Toronto.

At approx 12:45 pm I met Joshua Turnbridge and Cathy Muffolini on the third floor of 1345 St Clair Ave W.  These folks are part of the organization that’s managing and promoting this year’s annual Urban Warrior run Toronto , which is a unique extreme fitness competition that will take place on Saturday, September 8th, 2012

Urban Warrior is a sporting event focused on challenging individuals of all fitness levels to perform under ‘abstract’ conditions. This years’ race involves climbing, jumping, sprinting and crawling will bring on hard sweat, athletic camaraderie, bursts of laughter and a few tears!  This is premium leadership development with its own risks and rewards.

One attractive reward is the Warrior After Party! All participants will gain free access with their race VPN security system passes, along with one free beer ticket.

Its a fun teaching people what they really want to learn and I look forward to working with these people on making this unique project a huge success. My passion for antiques has helped me over the tipping point and I’m really findable in that niche – these people, like everyone else on planet Earth, can do the same things with the same tools.

Would you like to sponsor this urban fitness event? please get in touch, @roberrific

Making A Christmas Market in Toronto Distillery District

A lot work went into making the 2011 Toronto Christmas Market happen inside the historic Distillery District complex at 55 Mill St near Cherry St and Lakeshore, which is perhaps the oldest part of the old ‘Muddy York’.

First the construction crew had to install and decorate a 45 ft White Spruce Christmas Tree that was donated by Trees Ontario. The tree is an absolute spectacle with over twelve thousand reed switch component light bulbs and ornaments and is topped with a shiny silver star.

Next they had to fix and reinstall the old fashioned clock tower. It disappeared from the site after it was knocked over by a box truck earlier in the year. This majestic chronometer really steals the scene and is the subject of countless photos taken here at the distillery. The fifteen foot tall clock  is always on time and doubles as a light source at night.

Is that a suction truck at the base of the clock? Yes. The Distillery is built on marshy land and not much higher than Lake Ontario. Today the water table is so darn high in the Distillery District that this truck is required to come and suck the water from the spongy ground before cement can be poured and foundations can be secured, even for such small things as old fashion clocks.

Next the construction crew had to assemble over fifty wooden box vendor huts from materials that were donated by Loews.

Also present on the list of achievements is the world class audio sound system that pipes holiday cheer through speakers hung throughout the complex, and the food vendors that serve delicious meals made fresh with organic ingredients and cultural delicacies imported from all over the world.

Oh yes the building of Santa’s maze in which you can see here was accomplished by an army of yellow safety jacketed elves.

The 2011 Toronto Christmas Market exists in the shadow of the  half completed forty four story Gooderham condominium building in the background, and the extension of the development upwards into the sky. Toronto mortgage broker says the measured strength of the cultural scene on the streets and below developments helps leverage the true value of the real estate market above.

The shopping mall below the two towers, some of which will be completed by spring 2012 is reputed to include a Toronto dentist beside a business center hair salons and a Japanese Sushi bar, oh and a Mexican restaurant with state-of-the-art web karaoke machines.
Now in its second year, the 2011 Toronto Christmas Market at the historic Distillery has more street vendors, buskers and costumed performers, more live stage shows and the entire compound is licensed for alcohol. The Toronto Christmas Market is a European market style attraction that’s slowly evolving by continuous improvement into its own uniquely Canadian festival.  There’s nothing else quite like it anywhere else in Canada.

Lenzr’s September Contests: Great Prizes for Photographers!

Lenzr’s back again with two photo contests for September.  The prizes for this round are sure to make photographers pay attention, but just in case you haven’t, here they are:

Classy Summer Drinks

The Classy Summer Drinks contest recognizes the power of a mouth-watering drink at the height of summer.  Have you ever been stopped in your tracks by an impossibly good-looking drink?  Have you ever made an impulse purchase based on a drink’s picture?  Lenzr wants to be seduced by photos of your most delectable drinks under summertime conditions.

This contest is sponsored by a company devoted to providing the best stainless steel ice cube trays.  The winner will receive a package of stainless steel containers, which can be customized by browsing the sponsor’s sizable catalogue.

A Manufacturing Process

You may know all about cameras, from ISOs to shutter speeds.  But do you know how they are made?

Lenzr wants photographers to peer through closed factory doors in their newest contest, A Manufacturing Process.  Capture exclusive photos of automated machinery performing some sort of manufacturing task to win.

The contest is a bit different this time because the winning photos are intended for the sponsor’s website.  Specifically, the photos are meant for the sponsor’s pages on process manufacturing and lean manufacturing.   The winner will license their photo to Solarsoft for $250, and so will three other runners-up (at $75 each).  There’s also fair chance Solarsoft will feature winning photos on their site, but they are not obligated to do so.

Voting for both contests will begin on Sept. 15, 2011 and run until Sept. 25th.  In each case, the 10 photos with the highest scores will advance to a panel of judges, and the winner will be announced on Oct. 1, 2011.  Contests open to Canadians 13 years of age and older, but unfortunately it’s not valid in Quebec.

Lenzr.com: New Look, New Contests

Lenzr.com has been quietly revolutionizing the concept of online storytelling for the past two years through its serial photo contests. Now, as of June 1, 2011, Lenzr.com has an updated website featuring new technology so compelling it’s possible that photo contests may be the next big thing in terms of online marketing. It’s still essentially the same great site: budding photographers compete with each other, upload photos to the sponsored contests, persuade their friends and family to vote on their work and vie for real prizes whilst participating in a competitive, but also encouraging, photography community.

What the new site offers that the old Lenzr.com never had are ‘Community Contests’. These contests can be set up by anyone (an individual, business or organization) at any time, to show (not tell) the world about a story topic of their choice.

In addition to these exciting new changes, Lenzr.com has just launched four new sponsored contests, for prizes of laptops and digital cameras!

Summer Photo Contests on Lenzr.com

The Construction Sights photo contest is hoping to receive submissions illustrating a necessary summer protocol in the city: Construction. Like the glass analogy, there are two ways of looking at construction sites–positive or negative. On one hand, it’s hot, there’s dust flying around, and your bus has been detoured thanks to another construction delay. On the other hand, roads are being improved, housing is being created and many people are busily employed with construction work. There are two sides to this story–show us how you feel about the Construction Sights in your area and win!

The prize is a Sony laptop, courtesy of this contest’s sponsor, a family-owned Ottawa roofing company.

The Best Office Staff Party is looking to see submissions that juxtapose a stuffy office environment with a rollicking good time. How does your office let loose? Mini cupcakes? Interns working the ‘bar’? Who’s the life of the party–your boss? Show us your hilarious office party moments and don’t forget to include a sentence or two to put the photo in context. Also, while we want to see shots of people having a great time, make sure your co-workers are OK with your entry before submitting it–we are not responsible for any trouble you might cause!

The prize is a Sony laptop, thanks to an incredible IT staffing agency located in downtown Toronto.

The A Counting Exercise photo contest is looking for submissions featuring a repeating visual pattern to be counted. Tap into your inner Count von Count and take a look at the world from an arithmomaniac’s perspective: sure, those may be faces in a crowd, lines on the highway or a handful of pretzel sticks, but they’re counting exercises, too! Get creative with this one–this contest has received a lot of entries already featuring many amusing counting exercises. Show your never-ending profile in a three-way mirror, the Lego pieces your kids left all over the floor or a parking lot full of bicycles in a progressive European country–give the Lenzr judges something to count and you could win!

The prize is a Sony laptop, courtesy of this contest’s sponsor, a team of North York accountants.

Finally, the Shafts of Sunlight photo contest is looking to see tangible lines of natural sunlight in the submissions. There is something divine about the way light can take on the appearance of matter–observe in the picture to the right–these shafts of sunlight look almost like monkey bars sent down from the heavens. Try to capture a similar effect in your photo. This is the most specific contest; the rules state very clearly that shafts of sunlight, not other light tricks, are the desired outcome. Snap the most spectacular shaft of sunlight and you may win!

The prize is a Sony Cyber-Shot digital camera, courtesy of the contest’s sponsor, fittingly, a sunrooms installer.

2011 Antique Bottles Show and Sale in Toronto

The history of the industrial age is written in glass. The ‘slug plates’ that make the embossed labels in Canadian whiskey, soda, dairy, liquor and medicine bottles, read like pages in a book.  The names of the merchants and the contents of the vessels are from a simpler time of men and machines.

There is no better place to study this history then at a large bottle show in an urban center. The area’s most valuable glass is on display and the dealers are storytellers with lots of rare and precious knowledge locked up in their heads.

The annual Toronto Bottle Show, was Sunday April 17th 2011.

The annual Toronto Bottle Show event is produced by the Four Seasons Bottle Collectors, one of Canada’s oldest and most respected clubs.  On this wet and rainy Sunday afternoon, more than forty antiques dealers tables proffered over 5,000 glass bottles, crocks, jugs, cans, cards, comics and period advertising pieces on tables inside the Humber College gymnasium.

In the picture above you can see Dwight Fryer sitting behind a massive collection of pretty blue and green ‘window bottles’.  These are actually poison bottles and he’s one Canada’s foremost poison bottles experts – almost all of the very pretty cobalt blue and green and amber glass you see here was priced to sell quickly between $30 and $50 each, and Dwight was selling off these gorgeous glass bottles hand over fist. It was a moment in time.

If you study glass bottles you’ll find there’s no better place to see such a huge assembly of everything that’s decent and worthy of display in the antique glass bottle collecting discipline.  Here’s some of the great stuff.

These are absolute treasures – look here at the aqua green and cobalt blue torpedo bottles in Terry Matz display case . These are all dated between 1855 -1885 and they are all super rare. The average price for any bottle in that display case is approx $1200.  The guy sitting behind all those pretty torpedo bottles is Terry Matz, and he’s an expert and very passionate storyteller.

There not making anymore of these salt glazed stoneware jugs.

A real sweet spot for buying antique bottles,

Old advertising signs are growing harder to find and more valuable because they look great in modern offices and condominiums. The contrast between the new building and old signs is cool. The white walls need old paper posters, framed glass pictures and painted metal panels , and two or three colour wood or good condition cardboard advertisements. There are a lot of freshly painted white walls in our society that need embellishing with antique signs

People generally bring really rare, one-of-a-kind pieces to the bottle show.

The fellow named Ed Locke, seen in the photo to the right, brought in a Solnhofen Stone printing slab which was used in the early days of lithographic printing – $150 this piece shows an early advertisement for a Brandon Manitoba brewery which is also extremely rare.seen below

This is real early lithographic printing technology with a period  advertisement stamped on the surface of the limestone.  The piece stands as a reminder of how far we have come; there is a lot of water under the bridge in the evolution of this platform to the digitally replications done today. Our modern printable coupons have barcodes and expiry dates. To make such a system in the 1800s would mean hand carving a new stone for every coupon issued  Yet there are examples of the world’s first discount media buyers doing exactly that in the early 1900s. This exremely fine limestone block may only be obtained from one quary in Solnhofen Germany.

The history of pop bottles and beer bottles is another fascinating chapter in this Canadian history book. The screw cap is a very recent invention, and today’s most dominant closure method.

The closure mechanisms slowly evolved from simple corks to cod stoppers and complex ‘gravitating stoppers’, hinged plugs and Charles G. Hutchinson’s five bottle-stopper patents.

Here’s a cream and tan stoneware ginger beer bottle from a proprietor named H. Christin who was a brewer in Ottawa in the 1880s. This vessel was made by Brantford Pottery right here in Ontario, or  ‘Upper Canada’ as it was then known.

This bottle had a cork stopper and from this point forward there would be many different closures vying to be the dominant method. The crown cap became industry standard for this type of beverage in the 1920s.

Sharpen your eyes for cottage kitsch

Cottagers know that Kitcsh is King and the most simple furnishings and colourful trappings look great in cottages. The bottle show has lots of stuff with charm and character like some Mennonite furniture and folk art,

The chemistry of our culture dictates that cottages needs campy collectibles to feel cozy.

The modern Muskoka cottage suffers from being too sophisticated, clean and culturally void of character

Each new domicile in the Muskoka Lakes needs large amounts of kitsch to look and feel more quaint. So many of the million dollar mansions that border Lake Muskoka are ultra modern constructions. They’re not made of pine or poplar anymore – they’re not timber frame houses at all, but rather insulated concrete forms , steel and glass monstrosities.  They lack the quaint charm of a cottage and often feel too sanitary. They dont have the charm of a family cottage, but rather feel like a house in the suburbs.

Things that look great in new cottages include,  utilitarian items like 1950′s 60s and 70s kitchenware and beer coolers, antique fishing lures, vintage boating equipment, art deco furniture and native crafts. These items find ready buyers in antique markets and in online auctions

I wrote a longer and more detailed account of the 2011 Toronto Bottle Show on Dumpdiggers blog; it’s about ten pages of text with over twenty pictures. The piece profiles 15 of the 35 dealers present at the show.

Photographers Love Lenzr in February 2011

There are nine photo contests on Lenzr in February March 2011. The contests end on April 1st, when nine winners win nine different prizes! I should tell you that Lenzr is growing and becoming more relevant with every successful match – there are some great contests and lots of people are entering the action because of dedicated storytellers that use Lenzr as a base for their own multi media marketing campaigns who spread the word on several different contest media discussion forums. One of my favorite forums is Smart Canucks and you can see here how Maram has told the story about Smart Canucks finding reflection in swimming pools on a hot summer night, while out for a moonlight swim.

The picture shows an exciting array of challenges for amatuer and professional photographers alike. If you click that picture you’ll be transported directly to Lenzr. Register and upload photos – you wont regret the exposure. And these competitions are all FREE to enter and win. There are absolutely no entry fees and your email address is secure and will not be spammed.

Have a look at this month’s original challenges,

People Dancing:

Dancing on the dance floor, alone by the mirror or at the front door? People Dancing is an easy contest to enter and win dancing shoes. You probably already have pictures of people dancing in your photo collection on your computer – pick something

You can dance in your living room. You don’t need to be a professional to take a good party picture of people dancing or take pictures at dance classes in a progressive dance studio in downtown Toronto.

On Stage at Home photo contest

The On stage at home contest. This home stager contest focuses on group fun. Take pictures of your night and send them in to Lenzr for a chance to win an animal skin rug courtesy of a home staging company in downtown Toronto.

Soap bubbles used to fill the air during the Lawrence Welk show in the 1960s and 70s , but in today’s television savvy society they would have to be added digitally for the exact perfect effect. Studying soiap bubbles and foam is a passion of detergent deputies and shutterbugs charged with keeping cleaning safe. Upoald to the Soap Foam and Bubbles contest and win a great prize courtesy of a of a rigid foam insulation company.

there will have to be more

Up Against the Wall:

Flat out lying up  against the wall a buskar plays his mandolin on a quiet street in Sao Paulo Brazil. Alone with hios shadow he is satisfied by simply creating music

but Up against the Wall asks contspecializes in wall systems in Toronto.

Reflections in Pools:

The crazy contest Reflections in pools, asks shutterbugs to survey small lakes puddles and ponds for pictures of a reflection – the prize comes courtesy of a green landscaping firm in Toronto that is first for swimming pools. Capture a green landscaping company in Toronto.

Making Green Power:

And the last contest is Making Green Power. This contests asks you to think about how far you have come in improving the hydro electric system in canada and how much farther do we have to go… Lets look at wind power and cellulosic ethanoil production facilities that can use forest waste to make alcohol based fuels

Programs such as Ontario MicroFIT are e best photo wins a portable solar kit.

Contests were launched February 1st, but there is still time for you to think up some great ideas and get your images up.

There are plenty of new resources for Canadian photogs  to take better photos with their fancy digital cameras and advanced photo editing software – anything is possible. There is a new Canadian Photographer discussion forum that has has given Lenzr space in the index, and we are very happy about it down here in the office.

Best patio in Canada:

Have a party and take pictures of  The Best Patio in Canada.  and you could win bistro table and two chairs made from plastic resin extruded as wicker and heat adjusted so that its safe and will not breakdown or fade or become mishapen due to weather – so its perfect outdoor furniture for Canadian patios. See the connection? – the prize of three pieces of  patio furniture comes courtesy of Velago Patio Furniture.  Resin wicker patio furniture is made from recycled plastic? I dont think so – not all the time anyway…

Beautiful Factories:

Assembly plants and processing statsions dont have to be ugly all the time – there can be some marvelous looking machines that fill viewers with awe and inspire a mechanical creativity. Beautiful Factories celebrates efficiency and massive machines working with proper manufacturing software to turn out profits and dominate markets. Win Apple iPad courtesy of Solarsoft in Richmond Hill.

Unlikely Marriage:

There’s no avoiding the truth sometimes and admitting that some things just don’t belong togther all the time, or ever.  An Unlikely Marriage photo contest asks folks to get creative any of a marriage counsellor in downtown Toronto.

yeah thats fine

Voting starts on the 15th of March and ends on the 25th of March. Open to all Canadians (excluding residents of Quebec) 13 years of age or older.

Expressive Arts Therapist Explores The Distillery District

Ruth Wilgress, a Toronto artist and expressive arts therapist has now officially taken over the reins of the Daily Distillery blog reporting on life  inside this historic complex. She’s busy doing updates, profiling the artists and their exhibitions, restaurants and theatres, coffee shops and bakeries, furniture stores and gift shops that make the district so uniquely special.

Here she is hanging out with Amber and Anna from Tapestry, a not for profit Canadian opera development company that’s just absolutely cool!   Ruth writes about these people because she believes that anywhere artists can find support and get the proper resources to be creative in their disciplines must be celebrated, and promoted online.  These types of organizations, and the tireless passion of these people really helps make our culture more profound; as Canadian citizens their local works of music and dance makes us all richer – especially when they tell our stories. You can read Ruth’s article on Amber and Jenn from Tapesty on Daily Distillery, and maybe attend an upcoming event. Ruth encourages her readers to show your support by buying tickets.

Jacques Surveyer was recently profiled on Canada Blog Friends

After almost three months without any updates, Canada Blog friends sprang to life again this week with an update on another great Canadian blogger. Jacques Surveyer from Cobourg Ontario is profiled on Canada Blog Friends and forever documented as a web business blogger and consultant with a penchant for photography. Jacques is quite skilled in the art of using photo finishing software to manufacture amazing images.

I was particularly moved by the story about – some thing that wasn’t mentioned in the article was that Jacques is giving free blog workshops in Cobourg to help spread the knowledge of what’s possible these days to help people in the rural community.

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Cafe Culture: Balzac’s in The Distillery District, Toronto

Espresso bars have become a very common fixture in Toronto neighbourhoods, but a lot of them feel boring to me.

That’s not the case with Balzac’s Coffee Roasters, which has one location in Liberty Village and one in the Distillery District. Both are nice spaces that have been around for quite awhile, but it’s the Distillery spot I really dig. It’s in an old building with high ceilings and tons of character. Think exposed brick, a wooden bar with a marble top, wicker chairs, a giant antique looking chandelier, and a staircase to a more private upper seating area. The pastry case, crammed with croissants, scones and glass jars of various cookies, squares and biscotti, is easy to drool over.

And then there’s the coffee, which is rich, bold and always very fresh. Balzac’s uses their own beans, which can be bought for home use, and also offers the usual rundown of espresso-based drinks (cappuchino, latte, Americano, etc.) and a selection of tea from the prestigious Mariage Freres brand from Paris. I’ve never had a bad drink there. Another pro? The takeaway cups are 100% biodegradable and compostable. Plus, they look a lot nicer than Starbucks cups.

The cafes don’t have Wifi, which I assume is a deliberate choice since the space seems much better suited to reading books than reading iPads. It would be nice to be able to do work from there, but I guess it can’t be everything to everyone.

Solar Power Industry Embraces Lenzr in August

Thanks to government support and a multitude of determined environmental groups lobbying, we have new legislation, and now all Canadians can make and sell electric power to ‘the grid’, ostensibly the power can be made and consumed anywhere in North America, (but I’m told that small operations do present a challenge in terms of meeting and coordinating supply and demand).  Nicola Tesla would be proud; today there are almost a thousand independent power producers in Ontario alone.  Most of these individuals have solar panels, but some are selling wind power (and a rare few have small hydro electric dams – yes there is such a thing)

The  solar power industry now employs almost a hundred thousand people in Canada, and is rapidly expanding all over the world. Canadians import components from USA, Netherlands, Germany and Japan and China. In most cases the pieces are assembled in Canada, and some notable advances in the applications of solar power and batteries are exclusively Canadian.

In the months of August and September 2010, Lenzr can count itself among those employed in the rapidly expanding solar power sector in Canada. Three new contests are actively marketing solar power production and promoting solar energy to consumers.

The View From The Roof photo contest endeavours to collect the strange and wonderful scenery that’s ofetn only visible from rooftop, and consequently seldom seen by people who dont rise to the challenge. The sponsor of this challenge is a industrial roof repair expert who specializes in installing white roofs for solar power production. This contest shall collect the views from properties all across Canada. More details at the end, and on the Lenzr blog, All Weather Roofing Asks for your View From The Roof, win an iPad.

The Morning Sunshine photo contest on Lenzr is all about capturing and using solar power, in photography.

Participants are expected to use their cameras  to capture people and objects in the early morning sunshine.

Solarline Power assembles portable solar power generators (PSG’s) that quietly collect  deliver clean renewable energy to eco friendly habitats and construction sites, outdoor events and film productions.

Solarline Power makes and sell a mobile work unit that has on its top surface a giant adjustable solar panel that can be programmed tofollow the sun. below there are work stations that can be custimized to suit any business These units charge batteries that can replace small engines as a power source for many new eco conscious outdoor events and construction sites .

rimary objective is to help you create a backyard paradise.

People Building Things photo contest is also related to the solar power industry, and not just because the sponsor is an eco friendly solar powered deck building company.

Construction sites a more interesting when they happen at home, show us people building cool things in the basement, driveway, garage or backyard. Submit pics of  People Building Things and tell us the story behind the picture. Be sure and mention what’s being put together. 

In all three challenges, voting begins September 20th, the highest ranked photo will automatically Win an Apple iPad prize when all three web challenges end October 1st 2010. Must be 13yrs old or older to enter, open to all Canadians. Contest not valid in Quebec.

Travel Blogs about Meeting Icelandic Girls in Reykjavik

A travel blogger went to Iceland as part of a large bachelor party for a friend. The gang met a host of wonderful people including scholars and historians attached to the 871 AD project that dug some holes in the downtown streets of the southern waterfront area of town. But the quartet of Canadian boys also had a great night and a great party wherein they met a lot of Icelandic girls up on the top of the hill…

In another publication, the author wrote “When trying to decide which articles to write, based on all of the amateur photography that I had collected, it seemed prudent to try and leverage some of the many images of pretty girls that I had snapped as part of the nightlife.” and let me say again how perfectly he worked in business VOIP solutions by discussing how his friend so flawlessly reworked the hotel accommodations while the group bathed in The Blue Lagoon.

How Easily I Met Beautiful Girls in Iceland was published on Trifter.com on July 24th, 2010 and provides a fair account of a July Saturday night in Iceland complete with lots of little details and insights into the economy and lifestyle of young people living in the capital city Reykjavik.

The article also mentions how Roberrific’s own personal confidence has recently been boosted by the work done on his teeth by the best Toronto dentist, Dr Natalie Archer DDS. Several of the photos from this evening show him smiling wider than ever before to demonstrate a new confidence in the strength of a really white smile.

On TravelBlog.org a great variation of the same content appears again, including photos, but the shift was re purposed and the idea tweaked into another dynamic travel blog with a slightly different twist. The piece elaborates on the ways and means of meeting girls. It celebrates tactics and gives tips like COSTUME – one of the secrets to meeting girls in Iceland is to buy drinks and rally around one individual that is wearing a strong costume. The stag leader put a plastic horned viking hat on the groom’s head – a piece they’d rented special from a Toronto party rentals warehouse before we left Canada. This prop signaled to everyone that this individual was special, and the author felt special too because he was his best friend. This whole lesson is invaluable for meeting many and beautiful Midnight Viking Girls in Reykjavik Iceland.

The Midnight Viking Girls in Reykjavik Iceland article will no doubt be a very popular contribution to the legendary TravelBlogs.org website. The content will be viewed quite regularly if the piece is approved and promoted to the top of the category – in this case it will grace the top of the Iceland category which is quite popular with readers and unpopular with writers.

Both content pieces come to an abrupt end by the gang splitting up and meeting girls after the bar lets out.. One friend met a girl from a Toronto based pr agency and the author met a sweet little girl from Poland named Agnes that has migrated to Iceland on her own accord to work in the health care system.