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Happy Birthday Canada! 25 years ago I celebrated Canada's 125th with this very special television feature from my lovely hometown of Vasey, Ontario. Now I get to celebrate Canada's 150th, and share my travel stories, photos and web videos with you. Time flies when you get to live and work in this wonderful country of ours!!

Travel journalist and videographer Janie Robinson explores Lausanne, Switzerland. Every night, the watchman of Lausanne Cathedral calls out the hour from high in the northern tower; a time-honoured calling dating back over 600 years. Renato Häusler is one of only seven historic watchmen continuing this uninterrupted ritual in Europe, from his cathedral fire-tower high above Lausanne, Switzerlan...

Travel journalist and videographer Janie Robinson explores the watery wonders of New Hampshire in this web video posted online for the Toronto Star - Canada's largest circulation newspaper. Video by Janie Robinson, J-Walk Travel Media Productions. Read Janie's Toronto Star travel story "Going with the flow in New Hampshire" www.thestar.com/life/travel/2009/08/13/going_with_the_flow_in_new_hamps...

St. Croix's colourful art of moko jumbie stilt dancing came to the Caribbean with enslaved West Africans, who brought their culture and indigenous religions with them. Video by Greg McFadden and Janie Robinson, J-Walk Travel Media Productions. Read Janie Robinson's St. Croix Toronto Star travel story www.thestar.com/life/travel/caribbean/2009/10/26/moving_to_the_beat_of_a_towering_cultural_icon...

Travel journalist and videographer Janie Robinson visits some London landmarks and has tea with Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace in this web video posted online for the Toronto Star - Canada's largest circulation newspaper. Video by Janie Robinson, J-Walk Travel Media Productions. Read Janie's "Hey, did I just royally screw-up?" Toronto Star print story about causing a "moment of embarrassmen...

The picture postcard village of Oberammergau is world famous for two timeless traditions woodcarving and passion plays. A half-million people are coming to this Bavarian village for the world-class production of this decades Passion Play, and a local wood carver shares the secret of how one this lovely little community keeps their 375 year old passionate promise. Video by Janie Robinson, J-Walk...

Blue Mountain coffee is world-famous, but as Janie Robinson discovers, within this lush landscape lies one of Jamaica's most fascinating stories - the 300-year saga of runaway slaves whose descendants still live there. Video by Janie Robinson J-Walk Travel Media Productions. Read Janie's Toronto Star travel story "Marooned in Jamaica" www.thestar.com/life/travel/caribbean/2011/01/21/getting_mar...

The Bell Island Song tells the sad story of thousands of Islanders forced to leave their beloved homeland in search of work, when the iron ore mines closed nearly half a century ago. Just talk with any Bell Islander today and you'll hear colourful tales of miners, pirates and deadly torpedo attacks... some great Newfoundland stories about Bell Island's annual Accordion Idol competition too! Vid...

Janie Robinson explores what residents of Oslo, Norway have always known - that the Vikings arrived in North America before Christopher Columbus. They just had trouble proving it until a Viking site was discovered in L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. Video by Janie Robinson, J-Walk Travel Media Productions. Janie Robinson's Toronto Star travel story "Spirits of the Vikings" follows the trail of...

Discover summer in the Swiss Alps with J-Walk Travel Media Productions travel journalist and videographer Janie Robinson and read Janie's companion Toronto Star travel story Mountains of Charm in Switzerland at www.thestar.com/life/travel/2010/06/10/mountains_of_charm_in_switzerland.html Janie Robinson's company, J-Walk Travel Media Productions, creates web videos, print stories and photo galle...