Hi Everyone. Usually, you could fire a canon ball down Churchill's main street and not hit a soul, but Kelsey Boulevard came alive on July 1st with a splendid parade! Many of the town's businesses participated and made for a fun morning. Shortly afterwards there was some live music, a BBQ in the town square and a frigid dip in the Arctic Ocean (hydrographically speaking). The 'Bay Dip' involved teams of four to compete against each other in a relay to collect ribbons from a rope, and it was a true arctic experience and an exhilarating event!. The ribbons were put there at low tide, then, at high tide we had to go and retrieve them. This event was actually postponed last year because Hudson Bay was still frozen solid, the water this year was not ... read more

Hi guys. We drove the 1200 km from Sioux to Thompson in two days, making a few stops to break the journey up a bit. Having done our chores in the grand city of Winnipeg, we headed northward for a couple of hours through the seemingly endless expanse of farmland of the Manitoba prairies. We were followed by thunderclouds and the rain was just hammering down on us, lots of warning lights were flashing on the dashboard because of the water, so we opted to make an over-night stop at the small village of Ashern to let the car dry out a bit. The next day we drove north for 7 hours on a very empty stretch of highway to the nickel mining town of Thompson. The paved highway stops here, and it's also the place ... read more

Here are a few photos of Theresa's visit up to the James Bay Coast (in May 2010) for a work related on-site visit to Attawapiskat, Fort Albany, Moosonee and Moose Factory. Enjoy!... read more

I assume everyone knows that Andrew and I did not start walking again after our canine companions forced us to stop... Andrew traveled westward to Italy then Spain using the Mediterranean ferry system, while I tootled around the Balkan States that were once Yugoslavia. The Eastern Bloc countries (ex-communist European countries) are a fascinating part of the continent! Yugoslavia's communist era fell in 1991 and then the country started to fall apart, splitting into 7 separate nations by 2008 (Kosovo being the world's newest country). Perhaps more countries will be born in the near future? The entire area has a turbulent and sometimes violent history, yet the people remain optimistic and hopeful about security and stability. I think one of my fondest memories of the Balkans was chatting with Lena, a Bosnian lady. She told me ... read more

On our rest day in Messolonghi we decided to do an eight kilometre run! It was actually a nice way to relax!.. We then headed northwards... We spent two days hiking backroads and farm trails through the hills. At one point we were being followed by pigs and goats, we had locals giving us free oranges as we walked by them and we had a few free cups of coffee too. In the small village of Gouria, a few of the locals called for us to join them for a drink. In broken Greek we said that we would stay for a short while but we have a long way to walk so we must move on after a drink... My theory was to drink the glass of homemade wine quickly so that we could head ... read more