 | The Hike
2008-05-03, Capilano River, Canada. By: SilverAsia | | I wanted to have a chance to explore a bit more of my own area before taking off to Asia, and also have a chance to spend time with my friends before I vanish off into the great unknown. I had missed ... |
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 | Hockey, looting and torched police cars
2008-04-21, Montreal, Canada. By: ronnieed | | Strange how a day of nothing can be followed by a day of a lot. Things started off in a normal fashion which for us meant cooking pancakes with banana and maple syrup. Later in the day things would ch... |
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 | A lazy day, not very interesting
2008-04-20, Montreal, Canada. By: ronnieed | | We definitely made use of the breakfast buffet this morning and it was good, very good. Due to the mammoth breakfast marathon we had to delay check out and didn’t actually end up leaving the hotel unt... |
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 | Exploring in Quebec City
2008-04-18, Quebec, Canada. By: ronnieed | | We decided to take the slightly more scenic route from Woodstock to Quebec City as the boredom of the main highways really gets to you after a while. The other benefit of this route was that it meant ... |
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 | Today we drove to Woodstock
2008-04-17, Woodstock, Canada. By: ronnieed | | Today we drove to Woodstock and we’re not sure why. We figured that we would need to split the drive to Quebec City in two so that’s what we did. Not a great deal happened today. The drive was very bo... |
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 | The Duck and Monkey show
2008-04-15, Charlottetown, Canada. By: ronnieed | | Little is it known but the formation of the nation of Canada was briefly interrupted by the Duck and Monkey show of a travelling circus. We learned of this during our insightful tour of the Province ... |
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| We’re off to Prince Edward Island
2008-04-14, Charlottetown, Canada. By: ronnieed | | Nothing much to read here. We drove for a long time, stopped for a Lobster based lunch then drove some more. The ferry over to PEI is not running yet, it doesn’t start until May. Something to do with ... |
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 | Lobster Day!!!!!
2008-04-13, Halifax Harbour, Canada. By: ronnieed | | Today was all about Lobster. We didn’t have a plan set in stone for the day but we knew that we going to have Lobster. Everyone had told us that the Halifax area had the best Lobster and we wee going ... |
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 | The ghost resort of Marmot Basin - Jasper
2008-04-07, Jasper, Canada. By: ronnieed | | After a trip to the Bear Paw bakery for morning pastries we headed down the road to the Marmot Basin ski area. Having had a bit of confusion about ski hire and passes the night before we opted to sort... |
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 | Lake Louise
2008-04-05, Banff, Canada. By: ronnieed | | Lake Louise is a bit further away from Banff than Sunshine and is supposed to be the most picturesque of the nearby resorts. It took us approximately an hour to get there and we parked at the bottom o... |
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 | The day after the dogs. Sunshine skiing
2008-04-04, Banff, Canada. By: ronnieed | | The day after the dogs. Sunshine skiing
Having opted for the hostel breakfast we got up early, ate and headed out to the slopes. The Sunshine area is approximately 20km from Banff itself and is set q... |
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 | Last Day
2008-04-05, Vancouver, Canada. By: Marcus | | well, this is the last full day i'll be spending in Canada, dear reader(s). tomorrow i'll be taking flight to Tokyo and thence to Melbourne (in a plane, i hasten to point out. i haven't spontaniously ... |
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 | Howling dogs and Banff.
2008-04-03, Banff, Canada. By: ronnieed | | This morning we were on the road by 8am (this is early for us at the moment). Ed drove, Ronnie repeatedly shouted “stay on the right”, a relationship based on team work. We headed out of Calgary towar... |
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| Bye bye Whistler and BC, Hello Cal-gary
2008-04-01, Calgary, Canada. By: ronnieed | | Early start and a long wait at the airport. Not the best day so far but at least we made it to Calgary, the host city of the 1988 winter Olympics. The place where Eddie the Eagle Edwards did his stuff... |
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 | Skiing, snow and more skiing, on snow.
2008-03-23, Whistler Village, Canada. By: ronnieed | | This is where all of the days kind of blend in to one. We spent the next several days getting up, going skiing, coming back, hot tub, dinner, stuff then bed. Some days we made it on to the slopes earl... |
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 | Off to Whistler, bring on the snow.
2008-03-22, Whistler Village, Canada. By: ronnieed | | We had an early rise this morning and a cab ride through a rather deserted looking city. We arrived at central terminal at 6am for a 6:30 departure on the Greyhound bus. A little two hours later we ar... |
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| War Museums can be interesting!
2008-03-29, Kelowna, Canada. By: Marcus | | the last few days in Kelowna have been a little less productive than my time in Calgary or Nelson. not through any real lazyness on my part (he told himself firmly), but simply through my having compl... |
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 | Museums, some are good but others are not.
2008-03-21, Vancouver, Canada. By: ronnieed | | Morning number two also started with the free breakfast on offer in the hostel (muffins, toast, juice and coffee). We also had a repeat of the odd noise during the night. This time Mr Allnutt was more... |
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 | Vancouver Vancouver, this is it.
2008-03-20, Vancouver, Canada. By: ronnieed | | Day 1 in Canada. After a relatively good night’s sleep we cashed in on the free breakfast and headed off in to the city. For those of you interested in our sleeping patterns, we were briefly interrupt... |
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