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Ilona Biro
City Expert
Ilona Biro is a Canadian freelance writer and editor who’s traveled the world looking for great stories about people in far-flung places. She worked as a journalist in London and Mexico City before returning to Canada in 1993 and settling in Toronto. Since then she has contributed to dozens of newspapers and magazines, writing on everything from parenting to politics. She has worked on three Dorling Kindersley guidebooks, on Toronto, Montreal & Quebec, and the Eyewitness Guide to Canada. Ilona has also penned her own travel guide to Toronto, for families, called, fittingly, A Parent’s Guide to Toronto. She has also spent almost 15 years working on the Internet, establishing the world’s first ezine devoted to culinary travel, called Edible Planet. She feels that being a Home&Abroad City Expert is a particularly rewarding gig, as she has always "believed in the infinite power of the Internet to inform, assist, and even guide travelers in their quest for a wonderful vacation." Today, Ilona is gainfully employed by AOL Canada, but whenever she can, she continues in her pursuit of the interesting, the quirky, and the remote.
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Photographer |
Lindsay Hanaka
Photographer
Lindsay Hanaka is a Toronto-based freelance photographer who’s contracted her skills out to the Home&Abroad’s mission to document Toronto’s hot spots. She graduated from Humber College with two degrees in photography, Creative Photography and Advanced Photography, with an onward itch to understand all there is about the photographic world.
In between freezing moments and documenting all the beauty here on planet Earth, you can find her lip synching to Elvis Presley songs with a curled lip, hugging trees, or wandering around with a camera in the uncharted waters of Toronto, Detroit, Kingston, Muskoka, Perry Sound, etc.
Oh, and she loves to contemplate if one plus one does really equals two.
Fave Travel Spots: El Camino a Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.
Fave Day of the Year: Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead--How can you really deny a day where you’re permitted to dress up however you may (as a tube of toothpaste or a Russian spy) and speak to deceased relatives ... hey, it could be possible!?!
Fave Time of Day: 3 pm --‘tis the hour that I don’t obsess over Mexico (big smile).
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Photographer |
Michal Siniarski
Photographer
Michal Gnat Siniarski was born in Olkusz, Poland in 1978. Currently he resides in Toronto, Canada. He works in mural painting and product photography. Michal's main hobbies are travel and photography.
This upcoming summer he will be publishing his first book titled the Polish Landscape. More information about Michal and his work can be found at www.globalbound.com.
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