Canada Travel Blogs

I am now at an eight-hour sleep deficit. Every morning I wake at some ungodly hour, in pain from this wretched mattress and then I can't get back to sleep because of snoring. So if I'm starting to sound grumpy, that's why. Other than the mattresses, ...

A travel blog entry from Churchill by mlloyd
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Our plane's route from London to Calgary was over Greenland and northern Canada. With the time change, as soon as the sun set, it was rose again. Rather a weird feeling. We could see the ground flying over Nunavit and the NWT - there was no snow! ...

A travel blog entry from Calgary by kimandmartin
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We can't help but feel like schoolchildren here at CNSC. We're aren't allowed outside without supervision, we make bagged lunches, and we're always being ferried about from place to place in school busses. Today, though, instead of being herded onto ...

A travel blog entry from Churchill by mlloyd
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Back home for birthday celebrations!

A travel blog entry from Vancouver by sutiramisu
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Su, Rosie, Doris and Maria take a weekend away to explore all the Okanagan beaches and lavender there is to find and visit with a beloved ex-Vancouverie girlfriend, Terri. Bonus features include fresh off the tree cherries and apricots, and surprise ...

A travel blog entry from Kelowna by sutiramisu
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I'm sitting in a brightly lit room with five computers in it at the Churchill Northern Studies Center. I'm not feeling up to great compositions right now, but here are some highlights. Our trip up was uneventful. I thought the train ride might give me ...

A travel blog entry from Churchill by mlloyd
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Day 4 of the great polar bear adventure did not begin auspiciously. I woke at 4 am with a sharp pain in my left hip. When I tried to move the leg, the pain went shooting down the leg through my knee and all the way to my ankle. We're housed at CNSC ( ...

A travel blog entry from Churchill by mlloyd
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We spent a blustery morning inside planning the details of our trip to Europe. We have had a dump of about 15cm of snow in the morning and afternoon that made dreaming of Tunisia even more appealing. So Andrew and I have hammered out what we think our ...

A travel blog entry from North Gower by janda
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... . I'm so glad that my kids will get to meet Kate's kids and set up a new connection. When I was in grade 8 Kate come over to Canada and stayed at my parent's house for a few weeks. My Dad and my sister and I went and stayed with her parents when I was in ...

A travel blog entry from Manotick by janda
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So after almost 5 years of scrimping and saving we are only 8 months away from leaving on our trip. We have started to prepare the house to be rented (ripped up the carpet and put down laminate flooring over the Christmas holidays), Santa brought the kids ...

A travel blog entry from North Gower by janda
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So, our planning continues. We had a great visit with the Sparrows. We have spent a number of hours soaking in the morning sun in the dinning room with our map spread out on the table. We have taken to sticking sticky notes on the map where we want to go. ...

A travel blog entry from North Gower by janda
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The Wilson World Tour begins!

A travel blog entry from Vancouver by sutiramisu
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Wow! Things are a bit of a whirl wind these days! We just signed a contract with a couple to rent our house for the year! What a relief that is. We found them by advertising the house on the Ottawa school board's intranet. As it turns out Andrew and ...

A travel blog entry from North Gower by janda
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Hello all...well we arrived safe and tired into Canada,after an 8 hour bus journey from Boston to Montreal. Amazing,considering its just a few inches on the map! Believe us,its one big country! The border crossing to Canada was fun! Was like the Spanish ...

A travel blog entry from Montreal by loudan1979
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... our first internal flight. To be honest though, it was just as cheap as train and bus and was about 10hrs quicker! Check Air Canada for the deals! Here comes another hour time difference! Its so big this country! Well,we'll be back soon for more updates ...

A travel blog entry from Toronto by loudan1979
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Here we are back in Saskatoon with just our the memories of our trip to remind us that we were away this past four months. The time passed quickly, though it seems like we've been away quite a long time, too. It was strange to arrive home and the grass is ...

A travel blog entry from Saskatoon by kimandmartin
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... with my orchestra playing at the Midwest Clinic I am finally getting to rest a while in the snow covered landscapes of Canada. The fourteen hour drive up here yesterday was quite easy, sharing the driving with John and Elizabeth. I made one mistake ...

A travel blog entry from Aylmer, Quebec by jawad
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This morning the whole gang trekked from Catherine's place to the beach at Mount Doug. We had lunch on the beach and the kids played on the beach.

A travel blog entry from Victoria by cottonbud
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Hi, Sze here. I'm going to type out my day and Nadine will add hers since we spent most of today doing seperate things. Anyway, I realized today that I did not pack the digital camera cable so I can't download any of the pictures we've taken so far. ...

A travel blog entry from Vancouver by cottonbud
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Wahoooo! We have just purchased our tickets to Europe! We leave with Air Canada on Oct. 3 and come home to Ottawa on Dec. 19th. It is so exciting to finally have a ticket in hand and know for sure we are going. Next step is to finalize our trips within ...

A travel blog entry from North Gower by janda
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Well, things are all starting to come together. We had dinner with the Sparrows (Thanks again Mike and Dawn) on Thursday. We saw their pictures from Turkey and borrowed their LP books. They also gave us a copy of their packing list which will help us keep ...

A travel blog entry from Manotick by janda
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The next to last day of our trip, we go into Churchill for the day. It's a little place, a frontier town. First we go to the Eskimo Museum where I wish the docent would just shut up so I can look at the exhibits. Then we go to the Parks Museum in the ...

A travel blog entry from Churchill by mlloyd
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The Pai 5 (John, Jo, Shannah, Natasha and myself) met in the small northern Thai town of Pai, back in August 2003. I first met John and Jo during a game of Connect4 at a house party. After meeting Shannah and Natasha later, we all became good friends ...

A travel blog entry from Toronto by jawad
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13 jours avant mon déménagement, 15 jours avant mon départ! J'ai hâte!

A travel blog entry from Montréal by jelg
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... cash machines. Every other bank charges a percentage and this soon mounts up). Anyway, we had no probs anywhere except for Canada. For some reason we could only use one bank's ATM and this particular bank was not a particular widespread one. So this ...

A travel blog entry from Vancouver by marshallmatters
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Well it's official. We've booked our flights so we've gone from the planning stage of the trip to now actually having something to look forward to! This trip sprang from the idea for us to celebrate our 30th birthdays in style. Amy and I were born ...

A travel blog entry from Toronto by edamame
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... is the day. Check out of Beckside and get early morning taxi to the airport for the flight to Winnipeg. I am flying with Air Canada for $350 return. I plan to return on Wednesday of next week. The taxi costs $50. The flight takes 2.5 hours. The flight ...

A travel blog entry from Vancouver by petenic360
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Hi all, Vancouver was great. The first day we arrived it rained hard and the locals told us it had been like this for two weeks. So we found a bar called Earls and had a few drinks. This place had only been open for 2 days and we got talking to a ...

A travel blog entry from Vancouver by chris_and_kelly
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After I made my way on public transit to Kitsilano, a district of Vancouver - the city bus is only $2.25 vs a taxi of $30, I'm already being frugal. Welcomed by a friend I met in the Bahamas was a wonderful way to begin this trip. We went to dinner at ...

A travel blog entry from Vancouver Island by charmedlife
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... booked for 1010 at The Devil's Pulpit. The course is owned by the guys who invented Trivial Pursuit and has been ranked in Canada's top ten golf courses. William's playing partner, Brian, makes up the three ball. The course is superb, along the lines of ...

A travel blog entry from Toronto by petenic360
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