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vancouver via the 2 block perimeter of the embassy
This is a top pick! 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. ...
Home Sweet Home
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Quadra Fall Fair / Tristan Arrives in Vancouver!
This is a top pick! Part of the joy of travelling is the unexpected adventures. Last weekend I ripped a big hole my only jeans trying to coerce a goat onto a truck we were transporting to the Quadra Island Fall Fair petting zoo. My host family was providing the ducks ...
Timbits in Canada
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Home at last
This is a top pick! ... life of so many thousands of others. It makes me feel so blessed to have all the comforts and luxuries we have here in Canada. I also feel blessed to have been a part of and witnessed the life and struggles of so many others around the world. East Africa ...
India awaits
This is a top pick! It's happened again. My ambition has exceeded reality. With three days before I leave Victoria, I have a task list which wakes me in the foreboding dark of these winter mornings. Most people would assume these tasks are related to my trip. Foolish ...
Departure
This is a top pick! Well, the day finally arrived. After months of preparation, December 6th snuck up faster than I would have liked, with still seemingly 1,000,004 things to do. My flight was technically on the 7th but I needed to be at the airport the night of the 6th for ...
Finally We See Churchill, Manitoba
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Itinerary - first half
This is a top pick! 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 ...
And then on to mainland Vancouver
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
3 weeks to go
This is a top pick! ... . 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 ...
Booked and ready to go!
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Mid Trip Reflection: The Art of Solo Travel
This is a top pick! Ok I know that it's totally cliche but I believe every young traveller hopes to have their "ah huh!" moment. For me it was in the most totally mundane of situations, just hanging out in my room. After 3 1/2 months with the ups and downs (mostly ups) ...
Pai 5 reunion
This is a top pick! 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 ...
The Beginning
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Dreaming of Africa
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Biking around the bay
This is a top pick! Our ship docked at the Canada Place pier in the early morning. The sky was gloomy and there was the smell of rain in the air. When we opened our curtains we saw the beautiful city of Vancouver waiting for us. Disembarkation of the Ship was smooth and ...
Vancouver Welcome
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Quadra Island Farm
This is a top pick! In an couple of days I’ve had some very unique experiences at the Quadra Farm with my lovely host family. I’ve walked a goat, held a freshly laid warm egg, picked blackberries, clipped duck wings and this is just for starters. On top of this ...
Home Sweet Home
This is a top pick! ... letting the Americans back in it with 24 seconds to go, and the most amazing moment in overtime when Sidney Crosby won it for Canada. It was a fitting end to the games, giving Canada their 14th gold medal, which was also the most amount of gold medals ...
Numb bum and other tales from the U-Haul
This is a top pick! ... of us! On the road, the first part of the drive is not that exciting as it is all prairie. As beautiful as Canada is, hours upon hours of flat terrain in the rain is less than impressive. Now you must understand that when Brian gets ...
A day in the town
This is a top pick! Today we woke up to a gorgeous day, sunshine is following us around the world! After a short trip to the Pharmacy to pick us some essentials we met up with Anita and Oscar, our tour guides for the day. They went out of their way to make sure we see ...
Time's a tickin'
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Challenge: A day trip of Vancouver Island
This is a top pick! Travelling Vancouver Island starting from mainland Vancouver can be undertaken in one day using only public transport. (Leave those cars at home!) Just follow this simple no fail formula and you can do it to: 6:45am Wake - Walk - Train - Walk - Train - ...
What's In The Pack?
This is a top pick! Thank you to everyone who's been keeping up with our blog thus far. We appreciate your interest, well-wishes and comments. They will undoubtedly help us feel closer to home while travelling in distant lands. For those of you wondering what to pack ...
Weigh In At The Airport
This is a top pick! Hi Everyone! Thanks for playing along and guessing the weights of our packs. Unfortunately there is no actual prize, but Ivy gets the reward for the closest guesses. The actual weight of Sylvia's pack was 9.4 kg or 20.7 lb. The actual weight of ...
Adjusting
This is a top pick! ... weather for Victoria, and my body isn't used to it either. But the larger curiosities are the first experiences back in Canada. The supermarket seems like a Las Vegas casino after the stores in Cuba. Cars are everywhere. For days we luxuriate in the ...
Victoria (on Vancouver Island)
This is a top pick! Dean: On Sunday we travelled from Vancouuver over to Victoria on Vancouver Island. We could have just booked ourselves on to a tour bus that would take us across (so no need to worry about the ferry etc) but we decided to do it ourselves, via public ...
Jasper
This is a top pick! ... at 13:00 but left us all standing in a queue until gone 14:00 - no explanation, no apology - really shit service from Greyhound Canada. Anyway, Jasper is really great. We really like it. The first night (Tuesday) was spent in the hostel, but once again ...