We arrived in Toronto, and the flight seemed quick (1 1/2 hours) We had just cleared customs, and come out when Nicky arrived with her son Robin double parking outside the terminal. We dashed out, put the suiti's in the car, and sped off. All great timing. I cannot believe how Palframan Robin is!!! Must be very strong genes!! (For those who don'...

I have now spent several days in Toronto. The Weather is now very cold. It has not snowed yet but it is on its way. Toronto is not really a tourist town. It serves the people who live here well. They have every thing they need. The lack of history and and major tourist attractions does not bother them. The city lacks a heart. No body I talked to...

My mother would say I "used to be indecisive but now I'm not so sure!" This is because in the space of 12 hours I have changed plans a number of times. To say the staff on reception (through whom I have been arranging accommodation) have been patient with my erratic change of plans would be an understatement. As I mentioned before I was going up...

It is here; the day I have waited for, for as long as I can remember - twenty years at the very least. I thought I wouldn't sleep at all last night, however, I did. Not a great deal of sleep mind you but four hours will sustain me, for now. I am going to Greece TODAY. How incredible it is to type that sentence here in my travel blog, to write th...

Soooooo, we are still in Toronto.... We were flying over Montreal when the pilot turned the plane right around... turns out we were running on 3 of the 4 engins. To make a long story short it took us 3 days to get to India. Air Canada botched the whole thing. They had no idea what to do with us... this was the first time that a flight had been c...

We made it to Toronto and stayed in a nice hostel. The group is good and we all go out to eat and then somehow meet up with a local bar crawl. Best part...the drinking age is only 19!

With the prospect of having a 6 hr and fairly expensive bus journey the following day (from Ottawa to Toronto), we were chilling out in the Ottawa jail hostel.... That is when the stroke of luck came. Having heard our dis-approval of the bus cost, a lone Canadian woman staying in the hostel, became our very generous saviour. She was driving back...

Arvin's older sister Sonia came out for a visit at the end of August. She was here for a week and a half, but I think the most fun she had was our trip to Centre Island. We rented a quadricycle (think pedal-powered golf cart) and drove around like maniacs...fortunately for the masses of other people that were on the island that day, those quadri...

My original vague plan for the year in Canada was to spend half of it in Vancouver, and half in Toronto, with lots of travelling around that. To this end, I booked my return ticket to go into Vancouver and out of TO. If I'd known what I do now, I probably would have flown in and out of Vancouver, despite the horrible 10 hour flying time.... This...

So this is just to make sure this thing works!! Well I am packing my bags and I so know I am going to forget something. And look at that just remember I did not pack a hat. So much stuff, and you know Europe I am sure does not have stores to buy things at. I am off tomorrow night. Flying into Amsterdamn!! STaying at the Hotel Sphinex, which shou...