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Travel Blogs from Canada
Snowshoe Weekend - Castle Hostel
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We've arrived in Churchill
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Polar Bears Galore
This is a top pick! 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 ...
The Real Montreal
This is a top pick! *Apologies for the lack of photographs, but we have had to burn many to disc and delete from our computer to save space. Photo's will be added in the near future.* Ben Reporting: We arrive in Montreal the week of the Grand Prix. That being considered the ...
So Cold
This is a top pick! Minus 31 celcius today...here's something to stay motivated... I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow to feel inspired, to fathom the power, to witness the beauty, to bathe in the ...
Puppy Hell - Dogsitting a Pack
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Holy Parliament
This is a top pick! Ottawa - Canada's capital city is built on the river. My friend Sharon, who I met in Laos and then again in Vietnam last year, came by Guelph, picked me up at Dad's and off we went on an eight hour odyssey....way off the route because we were talking ...
Hot Night's in Nova Scotia, Canada
This is a top pick! ... wonderful time checking out Halifax. It had so many of those wonderful Canadian qualities and yet seemed really relaxed even by Canada’s standards. During our time we managed to squeeze in sightseeing time as well as relaxation and sorting out ...
A Bridge Too Far
This is a top pick! ... bank was superior. It's hard to truly appreciate the falls unless you leave USA. 2. Landscape - USA While Canada has glitzed and gentrified its Niagara with tacky shops and attractions (e.g. indoor skydiving and revolving restaurants). USA ...
Hectic Home Visit
This is a top pick! After a short rest in our own bed we woke with our next leg on our minds. We bicycled uptown to the office that India had outsourced its visa services to and signed in among a sea of other applicants. The friendly Caucasian security guard told us ...
Tentative Itinerary with Ten Days To Go...
This is a top pick! ... else used to the routine comforts of home a little uneasy? Honestly, I feel like we could easily spend a year conquering Canada... but not next year. We have chosen our path based on many of the things we know and enjoy, inspiration from ...
Sylvia's Reflections
This is a top pick! ... most of our travel clothes instead of discarding them. The more I see of the world, the more I feel lucky to live in Canada – what a beautiful country! I returned home with a newfound appreciation for things taken for granted – equality, ...
Canadian Thanksgiving & Van Dusen Gardens
This is a top pick! As the cool autumn change began to settle on Vancouver I delved into the serious business of job hunting. My first mission was to get to a Drug Mart Job Fair (Much more legitimate than it sounds!) ... which conveniently was located near a Botanical ...
5 Signs that your backpackers has become a home
This is a top pick! 5: Signs that your favourite backpacker hostel has become a home away from home: - Everyone you meet greets you by name - Nobody worries about giving you an introduction of the house and area but instead says you know what ...
Wow - this is a Canadian Lake
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Illegal Aliens making a splash at the border..
This is a top pick! ... start it's a no return trip, the only way back is to cross over into the US and then go back through customs in Canada. This would be forgivable unless everyone in your vehicle (myself included) is not carrying their passport. It was a honest mistake, and ...
Another day in the Town
This is a top pick! In the morning we took care of some 'admin' things, like booking a hotel for our stay at Pismo (California). Later we took a walk along the sea front to the touristic 'Gastown' district. We saw the Olympic cauldron and the new convention center. I like ...
A day at sea
This is a top pick! Today we make our way to Vancouver and are at sea all day. The ship takes the inside passage, thus the waters are calm and the rocking of the ship is moderate. We spent the day roaming around the ship watching a seminar from the ship naturalist (Milos) ...
Final Countdown...
This is a top pick! On a practical note, we've been finishing off our final preparations. These include parking the car and getting it ready for long-term storage as well as boxing up the bikes. This was more difficult than we thought and Brian had to take a lot more ...
Moose hunting in Toronto
This is a top pick! ... mentioned... we will upload photo's from Toronto when we get access to our discs... chill... it will happen soonish... Ben says: Canada's largest and most famous city is Toronto. A few hours west of the Frenchier Montreal, and only an hour north of the ...
In the Spirit of a Traditional Halloween
This is a top pick! Pumpkins, Zombies and Halloween Parties. This Halloween I made my first ever Jack O'Lantern. A group of hostel friends had a halloween gathering and went downtown in costume for a Canadian Style Halloween ...
Canada!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Vancouver Firsts
This is a top pick! Back in Vancouver, the number of hits on the blog site hit 7,000. We woke the next morning in anticipation of a much needed hike with friends Ange and Felix. Unfortunately, Mother Nature had other ideas. A thick fog obscured our drive up Cypress ...
Another road trip.....And Niagra here we come!
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Bonjour! It's Quebec!
This is a top pick! *Please note: due to lack of space on our computer we've had to burn to disc and delete photo's from our hard drive. More photo's will be added later.* Leah says: Quebec City was just as gorgeous as I remember. It is a very quaint very French city with ...
Niagara's Fury!
This is a top pick! ... sampling of wine (thanks Leah), and we even bought a couple of bottles. We both particularly enjoyed the syrupy sweet taste of Canada’s trademark ‘Ice Wine’ where the grape is picked from the vine while still frozen from snow. ...
Planning...
This is a top pick! The planning has begun. We have applied for leaves of absence from work for all of 2012 and started to generate a list of places to visit / how long we'd like to spend there. ...
Mount Doug
This is a top pick! 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 ...
