Getting to Monaco for the Grand Prix weekend involves a huge amount of detailed and explicit planning… or dumb luck.
About Dr. George Burden
George M. Burden is a freelance journalist who has been a member of the Travel Media Association of Canada for almost 15 years. George has served as a Regional Director of the Explorers Club and was recently designated a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. He is a past recipient of the Governor General's Medal and in 2014 succeeded his father as the 31st Baron of Seabegs, Stirlingshire, Scotland. George was appointed by Chief Peter Noel Lamont of Clan Lamont as his Canadian Commissioner in 2017. George is a "ceann tighe" (chieftain in Gaelic) of Clan Lamont and served as Chief's Representative on the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs.. The Burdens have been a loyal branch of this clan for centuries.
George's publications to date have included flying in an F-18 aerial combat exercise and descending in both a Canadian naval SDL deep sea submersible and the Victoria class submarine, HMCS Windsor. He has also traveled to and written about all seven continents.
George has published articles on diseases depicted in ancient Egyptian art at the Cairo Museum and has done an analysis of the Edwin Smith Papyrus from a modern perspective. Medical history is also an interest of George and he has co-authored a book on this subject entitled Amazing Medical Stories, published by Goose Lane Editions/University of Toronto Press. He won 3 awards at the 2010 North American Travel Journalism Awards.
Gold - Category 143: Resorts - “Chilling Out at Quebec City's Le Chateau Entente”
(Published at Life As A Human on July 30th, 2010)
Silver - Category 128: Intergenerational and Family Travel - "Princess for a Day"
(Published at The Medical Post, April 6, 2010 Issue)
Bronze - Category 150: Cultural, Educational, Self-Improvement Travel - “Having a Ball, Vienna Style”
(Published at Life As A Human on June 12th, 2010)
George was also the recipient of the Travel Media Association of Canada's:
Choice Hotels Award of Excellence for Best Canadian Story-2005
Days Inn Canadian Family Travel Writing Award-2007
Inside the Big Bang? Literally!
Geneva’s CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest particle accelerator, has become much better known in recent years, in part thanks to the efforts of the fictional Sheldon Cooper of “The Big Bang Theory” renown.
How The Real Doctor Frankenstein Cured Lead Poisoning
The road to Castle Frankenstein snakes up through a particularly gloomy portion of Germany’s Black Forest. This wood is known as the Odenwald and takes its name from the god Odin, the Nordic patron deity of war and death.
The Day The Sun Blacked Out
If you missed this one, don’t worry, as North America will experience another total eclipse in August 2026. Unfortunately the part of North America where you will see it is eastern Greenland, so some travelling, perhaps including dogsled, may be involved.
Hot Times In Varadero At The Sol Caribe Beach Hotel
My feet dangled from the open door of the old Russian helicopter as we traversed the Escambray Mountains of Cuba at treetop level.
Don’t Cry For Canada, Argentina
“…briefly during WW II Canada is the second wealthiest country in the world! Watch the Canadian flag drop off the top 15 list in the 1980’s, never to return.”
What Would “THE Canadian Prairie Federation” Look Like?
The population total of the three prairie provinces is about seven million versus a Canadian population approaching forty million. Within this region exist the world’s third largest oil reserves, third largest uranium reserves and about ten percent of the world’s wheat output.
Cruising the Dunes of the Sahara, Moroccan-style
We are racing across flat scrub land, the drivers of a dozen SUVs playfully jockeying for the lead as we approach what look like mountains looming in the distance. These mountains, however, are not made of stone, but are rather the massive Erg Chigaga sand dunes of the Sahara desert.
Christmas in Zanzibar
Hammams are found all over the Islamic world and are often very elaborate building featuring marble slabs where a bath attendant can scrub you with soapy mitts and varying levels of enthusiasm ranging from mildly stimulating to removing several layers of skin.
Finding the Fab Five in Kenya
The eeriest experience was watching the hyenas moving ghost-like, eyes glowing, encircling a cape buffalo and attempting to bring down her young calf. They had already picked off all the other calves in the course of their nocturnal stalking.
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