by Godfrey von Nostitz-Tait | Jan 17, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Rat, Wind in the Willows I’m the first to admit that my yachting days a still a ways off, so in the meantime I’m more than content to mess about...
by Godfrey von Nostitz-Tait | Dec 17, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
For a little while longer, the aromas of Bratwurst and mulled wine will continue to welcome Vancouverites into the city’s one and only German-style Christmas Market – WITH German vendors from Germany! At first it looked like the market was doomed. On the...
by Godfrey von Nostitz-Tait | Nov 26, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
CLJ Reviews The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga What We Read For my second book, I choice The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. My choice this time was simple – It had recently won the Booker, it had a colourful book jacket and, well, let’s face it books set in India,...
by Godfrey von Nostitz-Tait | Nov 26, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
CLJ Reviews The Zanzibar Chest by Aidan Hartley What We Read I read the Zanzibar chest during a booze filled week in Mexico. At the time it seemed like a rollicking good read – chronicling the journeys of Aiden Hartley, a BBC journalist through African conflict zones...
by Godfrey von Nostitz-Tait | Nov 5, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
“The ship spotters are alive to some of the most astonishing aspects of our time. Standing beside a docked ship, their heads thrown back to gaze at its steel turrets disappearing into the sky, they enter into a state of silent, satisfied wonder.” Alain de Botton I...
