Travel Blogs from Burnaby, Canada
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Friday 22 August
... us down. I think Vancouver could do better than this for RV accommodation.... There's a business opportunity there for someone. Burnaby RV Park is very good and it is heaving with people at the moment- because there is nowhere else to go ...
Sunday 24 August
Sunday 24th August We made Jamie Oliver Pancakes for breakfast which I have perfected during this trip! They seemed to go down well as everyone was asking for more! The kids went back in the pool for the rest of the morning while ...
Thursday 21 August
... and it was lovely to see them after such a long long time. Thanks you guys! You're Awesome!!! We got back to Burnaby at about 9.30 after stopping for a munch along the way. It was good to be back where we started but also a ...
Saturday 23 August
Saturday 23rd August We were expecting Craig, William and Sam for the weekend. They arrived at about 11 am and the kids spent the rest of the morning in the pool. Steve helped Craig set up his tent, which they managed to do right ...
The Engagement Party
... travel blog! We left (not so) sunny Victoria bc yesterday, and our adventure took us all the way to beautiful Burnaby BC and wonderful accomodations at Kalyk's Boarding house (Many thanks) where we celebrated Chad and Michelle's engagement. Glen and ...
A good excuse to see our favourite people!
Last night we had a wonderful gathering at our local pub, the Lougheed Bar & Grill (aka 'Chester's Basement'). It's a nicely hidden establishment located under an apartment building. Kind of a secretive place but kind of not. ...
Vancouver
nach langer Reise sind wir am nachmittag ortszeit in vancouver gelandet. Zuerst mussten wir von Zürich nach Frankfurt fliegen, dort 3,5h warten und dann nochmals 10h nach vancouver fliegen. zum glück war es kuhles flugi mit bildschirm für jeden ...
Shopping downtown and getting wet
... home later tonight. We didn't do much more shopping; instead we headed back to the car and Cindy took us on a little drive to Burnaby Mountain Park which she claims has some amazing views. Unfortunately it started to rain on our way over so by the time we ...
Waiting out the Volcano
... to Aswan, Abu Simbel, then returning by air to Cairo. Our flight from Vancouver, BC to Cairo was via London on Air Canada connecting to Egypt Air to get to Cairo. The volcano put an end to that along with thousands of others' travel ...
Common Differences I'd Like to Call Slang English.
+++ AUSTRALIA VS CANADIAN SLANG +++ So while sitting at work having nothing to do apart wait for people to walk through the doors and order a coffee I was mulling over what my next adventure or next blog be! Then a little old man walked through the door ...
Home Again, Home Again
Today is our 49th day on the road and it is time to return home. After our, as usual, extensive breakfast, we took a taxi to Ben Gurion Airport to face the ordeal of twelve and half hours to Toronto, a couple hours of layover followed by a never ending ...
Buntzen Lake, Jericho Park, Burnaby Mountain
... baja en grasa, cuando termine de ordenar me senti tan snob que hubisese sido mas sencillo ordenar un baso con agua, ibamos camino a Burnaby Mountain, basicamente es el jardin de la universidad Simon Fraser (SFU en la tradicion de los acronimos), un sitio ...
Trying to busy ourselves
Well, today we have been trying to just make ourselves very busy. So we met my mom's friend from high school at the park. She has a screaming two year old girl and a seven year old boy. All we did was me and Sophia took turns following ...
July 1st
... is there. We also saw a really small parade. And it was mostly of people walking around saying "Happy Canada Day". The parades in Summerland are way bigger and longer. In parade I saw the cadets. I am not sure ...
Canada Day
... today is Canada day. We are planning on going to a parade and doing some fun activites. Also we might go to Burnaby mountain and watch the fireworks sometime tonight. Me and my dad are the only ones up right now so we have to wait ...
July 9th
We have been in Burnaby for a long time. So this morning we walked around the house doing nothing. It felt like we were all dead and just walking around until dad and his two friends came home from the airport. It was about a 15 hour ...
Relaxing at Nana and Grampie's
We spent a wonderful Canada Day with my Mom & Dad at Burnaby Village ...
Back to Canada!
... . I think that our trip went well and that we all got a lot out of it. We are now in Burnaby, British Columbia visiting with my grandparents for the Christmas holidays. My dad has promised my grandparents that we will not go for any ...
An icy escape
Most of you who will read this blog already know what kind of a day it was on December 22, 2008 basically anywhere in Canada... cold, icy and with lots of snow. However, we had already postponed our departure date by one day, since the day before the snow ...
A Whirlwind back home
... , then a restful night with the Henrys. Saturday we got 2 new tires on the Neon, picked up Crystal and came up to Burnaby, for 2 nights, Today was mostly packing and repacking. As I type this, Ruth is on the floor going through ESL materials and ...
Rough Rider vs. Lions
Me, my brother, and my grandpa all went to the football game, B.C against Saskatchewan. We took the sky train to B.C place. The sky train was really crowded and we had to stand. A lot of the people on the sky train were wearing B.C ...
The zoo and the mosquitoes
This afternoon we went to the zoo well my grandparents went to there motor home. I guess they had to go pick things up and I don't know. The zoo was awesome. We walked a long ways and it was hot and I was wearing flip flops. ...
Setting up the Travel blog
After all the planning, reading, surfing and dreaming and almost two years our trip time is fast approaching. What was to be a family trip at the beginning morphed into just my twenty year old daughter and I taking a trip together to London, Paris and ...
Runnin' Around
... and a half where we had to drop my parents’ guns off at a storage unit before going through customs to get into Canada, about thirty minutes away. Customs was a lot easier than I thought. The person only asked dad a few questions about where we ...
Still in the planning stages
Only 35 more days until Jennifer and I leave on our trip. The week previous to our departure we have appointments to have our nails, toes and eyebrows done (well we both have the manicures and pedicures booked but I would never let anyone pluck my ...
21 hours until take off
We will be leaving on our adventure in 21 hours. I still can't believe it. We are both extremely excited and can't wait to touch down in Tokyo! We are pretty much packed, just a few items to add. Already my suitcase won't stay standing up, there are too ...
Leaving Tomorrow for Geneva
I figured blogging is an easier way to communicate rather than forwarding an email saying "I'm alive". That being said, I probably won't blog much. I'd rather spend my time seeing the place, rather than spending it in front of a computer. My ...
The planning stage...
... , New Brunswick to Digby, Nova Scotia. After a day in the tiny town of Digby the bus will take me up to the thriving city of Halifax. Halifax is the last stop on my Eastern Canada tour, and after a day there I board a plane to return to home sweet ...
Packing Queen
I'm nearly all packed and ready to go, with just under a week left in beautiful BC. I'll be leaving behind this land of construction and grey drizzly weather and heading to the land of... uhh... construction and grey drizzly weather... hmmm... perhaps ...
Midsummer Festival and Paavo Nurmi Run
As part of the Scandinavian Midsummer Festival I participated in the 10 km Paavo Nurmi Run today! It was a beautiful course and a well organized run - and despite the fact that I really don't like running I managed to enjoy it, and complete it in my ...
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