Chris Robinson is the host of The Chris Robinson Travel Show - broadcast on Newstalk 1010 every Saturday at 10am and on CJAD 800 Montreal at 11am. www.ChrisRobinsonTravelShow.ca
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 isa multi-disciplinary group of art galleries in the 124th 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
After such an enlightening time in Edmonton, it was a delight to broadcast my radio shows from the Metterra Hotel in Edmonton.My guests were Shirley Lowe of the Old Strathcona Business Association, Alex Patterson of TU Gallery and Mae Anderson, a talented local singer whose first CD “Off the Floor” has just been released.In typical Edmontonian fashion, I was pleased to see Mae perform later at Edmonton Chante, an annual French song festival.My grateful thanks to Kelly Bertoncini of Edmonton Tourism for hosting my trip so professionally.