Swiss Quality Hotel Bernina Ottawa

... airport shops, we hit the Star Alliance lounge again. The Hong Kong international lounge is simply beautiful and one of the best lounges I have encountered. When we arrived, there were hardly any other people. We immediately hit the hot food section, which offered lots of delicious Chinese food items. I had some more dim sum and congee (Like I said, no self control). As well, I helped myself to a small tub of Haagen Dazs ice cream. Colin called it ...

... more hands-on (ie. bossy!) going through immigration on this trip and get them to use up all the little blank spaces so I don't have any problems...<br><br>The only thing I'm sad about is leaving my cats behind, although I know they will be well cared for. I feel a little bit guilty... =( <br><br>I'm going to use this as a way to keep people up to date on my travels because I know that in some places I may not have ...

... br>August 23, 2009 <br> After breakfast and coffee, we thought a bicycle ride might be nice. A short drive down the road led us to the Sandiland Forest Discovery Center, a nature reserve. A volunteer at the Reserve greeted George to explain the activities in the Reserve and suggested the Pine Ridge Trail as a good bike ride. Off we went turning left at the first fork in the trail following a narrow road track up and down through the trees. The first ...

... holes years ago by now evolved into challenging mounds. Add to this the experience of constantly being approached: do I want a ride? do I want to get laid/a ********/a massage? I hasten to add that none of this is done in a pushy or threatening way; it is safe to go everywhere but as a first time experience it is not for the fainthearted. I could not find an agreeable restaurant so we consulted our guidebook and selected one, the "Foreign Correspondents' Club". This was ...

... of ottawa was however meeting someone who i can only describe as my 'soul sister'. Lets just say that much vodka and coke was consumed over many chats of music and books and films and mostly the beauty of Mr James Dean Bradfield. Good old Ash knows what i'm talking about! Anyway i spent most of my time with this lovely girl and we got very drunk many times and of course swore to travel to Texas for SXSW in 2010... we wait with baited breath!

... and apples so we would have lunch for on the road. Before leaving Halifax we purchased a cooler for the truck that can plug into the cigarette lighter (but it is also collapsable - very good choice). Cocoa was very unsettled during the drive from Levis to Montreal. She cried much of the way. We made a couple of stops along the way to allow her time out of the vehicle to see if that would help...it really didn't. She was just not a happy ...

... loosely as we didn't have to build a rock statue that resembled a small human. We simply had to throw a pile of rocks together that met their requirements. We both started grabbing for rocks to form a base but soon went with a system whereby Ron brought me rocks and I started piling them up while surrounded by at least 100 other teams who were all doing the exact same thing. We had ours done quite quickly. In fact, that didn't seem to be much of a challenge at ...

... but totally worth it. If you do anything in Niagara Falls, do this. There are also some great wineries in the area, it's a good idea to check a couple of them out. Most of Ontario wines come from this humid and balmy part of the province. A nice day trip from Niagara Falls is Niagara-on-the-Lake. If you like tea and crumpets this is your place. It's a throwback to the Victorian days and it's surprisingly un-plastic. Thing is though, you'll need a ...

... with an emphasis on the canadian aircraft industry and its developments - the anti G suit was developed by a Canadian. <br><br>Norah wanted to see the national art museum, where we unfortunately missed the recent Renoir exhibition. There was some good native and older Canadian art but most was modern "progressive" art which was not our style. I suppose the biggest item was an enormous spider sculpture outside. <br><br>We had ...