Edmonton City

At the centre of Edmonton lies Sir Winston Churchill Square with the eight-storey glass pyramid of City Hall and the architectural gem of the new Art Gallery of Alberta which opens next year. Close by is the Sutton Place Hotel where I stayed: a great base for getting about the city. The Gallery Walk is a multi-disciplinary group of art galleries in the 124^th Street neighbourhood and the first of its kind in Canada; Alex Patterson of TU Gallery was a companionable guide. And Chris Szydlowski of Segway Guide showed me the delights of the latest generation of Segways on a tour of the trails in the North Saskatchewan River Valley