Wanderlust... by wongoz

Well, as much as I love to travel, seeing new things, discovering new places, meeting new people, and eating new foods, it's always nice to read something nice about my hometown, Toronto, especially if it's not written in a Toronto-area publication.

So consider my socks knocked off, or my boat floated, or my crank turned, because the über-chic Wallpaper* magazine just covered the T-dot in its famous travel section for the March 2005 issue. So what if Toronto was like the 1000th city to be featured, or that (horror of horrors) Montreal or Vancouver may have been covered before us - the point is, we're cool, dammit, because Wallpaper* says so!

Usual suspects like Canoe and the Four Seasons are listed as THE places to be, but also interesting is that we're actually starting to get recognized for our style and design. Pieces like OCAD's Sharp Centre for Design, or the Frank Gehry addition to the AGO, are being hailed all the world over, just as Aachen-born (yeah, that's right) Mies van der Rohe's TD Centre was 40 years ago. I say, it's about time we stopped talking about being world-class (man, I hate that term), and just started being it.