Clarion Hotel And Conf Center Gatineau

... too-small kimono and pole dancing in a Pakistani bus [when the kids weren't looking!], while my comrades were playing chess in a North African souk and making tortillas with age-old Playdoh. Highly entertaining :P

We then found the big exhibit, the Canada Hall. It's basically a lifesize time warp through the history of Canada, which proved quite interesting. The BF and I had an ongoing theory that everything around was made by beavers. We didn ...

... restful sleep, until the garbage truck woke us up early this morning with its screeching and whirring. We all agreed it was probably the loudest garbage truck in the world! So anyway, after we arrvied yesterday we went out and walked around the immediate area to find a restaurant. We walked up one side of a street (don't ask me which one), and then down the other side until we settled on a tiny little place. At first glance ...

... I sat with a blanket on my lap and a hot chocolate but he wasn't into it (party pooper). But I did have one small consolation, as we discovered snow taffy. It is basically boiled down maple syrup placed in blobs on a tray of snow, so you pick up the blob on a stick and there are bits of snow stuck to it. When you bite into it its all gooey and hot and cold at the same time it was AWESOME!! After this we went a passed some time in one of the pubs close by (not TOO much time ...

... Rena's car. Here is the breakdown of how many times we had to pack and repack our gear: 1. Into Rena's car 2. Out of Rena's car 3. Into Erin's van 4. Out of Erin's van 5. Onto sleds 6. Out of sleds 7. Into cabin 8. Out of cabin 9. Into quinzhee 10. Out of quinzhee 11. Into cabin 12. Out of cabin 13. Onto sleds 14. Out of sleds 15. Into Erin's van 16. Out of Erin's van 17. Into Rena's car 18. Out of Rena's car 19. Into my house again

... Europe : 104 568 - Amérique du Nord : 4 642 - Amérique du Sud : 2 569 Nationalité : Espagnol : 55 326 - Allemande : 13 037 - Italienne : 10 275 - France : 6 982 le Canada vient au 7e rang avec 1 850 Profession : Étudiants : 21 797 - Employés : 19 056 - Techniciens : 14 648 - Retraités : 13 880 - Indépendants : 13 442 - Professeurs : 9 381 Mois d'arrivée Ŕ Santiago : Aoűt : 27 140 - Juillet : 20 108 - Septembre : 15 189 ...

... official capital of Canada. The main attractions are Parliament Hill, The Byward Market, The Mint, Museum Of Civilization and Rideau Canal. The Museum of Civilizations had the most amazing collection of Canadian history and artifacts from the first settlement

... work that Ron's wife did. And as a result we would get to eat the "easiest" item they had on the menu. And that item turned out to be chocolate covered pogo sticks. I was expecting this part to be easy but not quite THAT easy. We didn't stick around long enough to find out what other items people had to eat but the team beside us had to eat chili peppers for having got some answers wrong. North we headed on Booth as we could not wait to complete the tenth and final challenge that awaited us.

Well we made it! We woke up in Avebury this morning and drove to Gatwick to return our car and catch our flight back to Montreal. The drive was uneventful just as we hoped. We got to the airport in plenty of time and spent our last few p's on some m&m peanuts. We got on our plane at 1:30pm took off at 2:10 pm as scheduled and landed 6h and 59 mins later in Montreal. Julia, Brett and Claudia were at the airport waiting for us! It was so exciting to be met by ...

Egy Air Canada Jazz géppel repültem, ami nagyon pici, cirka 60 fős légcsavaros gép volt. Boardbagről semmi hír, remélem befért. Mint kiderült, Ottawa közel van, alig 30 perc az egész út. Az Ottawai vizit rövidre sikeredett. Leszállás után meggyőződtem róla, hogy a csomagjaim ismét saját útjukat járják, nem nekem kell ...

... imagine that when I start going through the thousands of pictures that I collected in the 15 (!) countries I've visited, I will be able to associate a pleasant souvenir to a place or to a face. You know what? I've realized that travelling is not a checklist that has to be blindly followed; the shear richness and complexity of the European continent and its people make it impossible to do or see everything anyways. I'll take slow and leisurely ...