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Lok and Catherine Lok and Catherine are leaving behind the thrills of a desk job for a while to visit the US and Canada.
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Prince Edward Island Legislature
Prince Edward Island Legislature
It's small, it's democracy.
After spending a bit of time in Quebec City we jumped on the VIA Rail destined for Moncton. You just have to love the special discount section of the VIA Rail website because we managed to snag another deal and get a sleeper cabin for the same price as the budget seats. We jumped off the train in Moncton, New Brunswick, a few hours later than scheduled and hopped straight onto the bus destined for Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island (PEI). A couple hours later and we were crossing the Northumberland Strait on the seriously long Confederation Bridge that links Prince Edward [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 3rd 2009 | 94 Views | [diary=387246]

Citadel - Halifax
Halifax from the Citadel
St John's

Before crossing the border from English-speaking Canada to French Canadian Quebec, we had heard so many stories and opinions about the province of Quebec and the French Canadians that inhabit it. Some people spoke glowingly about beauty of the province and it’s distinct culture, others were tired of the rhetoric about Quebec being different from the rest of Canada and the desire to seek sovereignty and go it alone as an independent state. We went in with an open mind and were instantly enamored by the kindness of the people, the beauty of its cities and the instantly comfortable feeli [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 15th 2009 | 149 Views | [diary=381844]

Poutine
Ice Sculpture @ Winter Carnivale
Old Quebec City

Rideau Canal
Rideau Canal
The biggest ice skating rink in the world.
We came to Ottawa with a bit of a soft spot for national capitals. After spending so much time in our own nation’s home of politics, we are used to the taunts that are afflicted on such cities - expensive, sterile, full of civil servants, boring. We didn’t find Ottawa to be a cheap city, and there were a lot of government buildings and civil servants around, but boring...No, not all. In 1857, Queen Victoria chose Ottawa as Canada’s capital even though she had never been to Canada. Ottawa lies between Toronto and Montreal, in the province of Ontario, just across [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 20th 2009 | 244 Views | [diary=375217]

The Infamous Beaver Tail
Parliament Building in Ottawa
The Parliament Library

Old Havana
Old Havana
Some buildings have seen some love in recent years.
Take me to the April sun in Cuba, oh, oh, oh Take me where the April sun Gunna treat me so right, so right - so right - April Sun in Cuba, Dragon Well, it wasn’t quite April, but after surviving part of a Winnipeg winter and then getting a bit more of the same in Toronto, the best cure we could think of for our chronic Vitamin D deficiency was a couple of weeks in sunny Cuba. The island nation, only 90 miles from the Florida coast, but as you can imagine, it is a world apart. We began in [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 16th 2009 | 309 Views | [diary=374063]

Che - This Guy is Everywhere
Never Too Many Ladas
Jose Marti Statue at Revolution Plaza, Havana

Via Rail style
Via Rail style
Lok enjoying the Via rail journey, after the shower had been fixed.
With a tinge of sadness we left Winnipeg and jumped on Via Rail for a 39 hour rail trip to Toronto. While this might sound ghastly, it was made all the better by being able to be in sleeper class. A bed made for you every night, a shower and three cooked meals a day. All we had to do was read, sleep and the proverbial. And we were the youngest there by around 20 years. Travelling by land doesn’t really get much easier than that. Having said that, apparently the trains are European and not really made for Canadian conditions. [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 4th 2009 | 205 Views | [diary=370173]

CN Tower
Niagara Falls
Are We In Vegas?

What would possess two Australians to spend an Australian summer in a Winnipeg winter? And there starts the conversation with pretty much everyone we encounter in Winnipeg, a city’s whose weather seems to define it and probably for good reason. Winnipeg is the coldest city in the world (with a population greater than 600,000 people). That’s a record that doesn’t seem to appear on too many of the tourist brochures or ‘Highlights of Winnipeg’ lists. In a strange but somewhat logical paradox, Winnipeg is also one of the sunniest cities in Canada, with an aver [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 18th 2008 | 2628 Views | [diary=355408]

A Special Edition Canadian Quarter
The Frozen Forks
The White Bison

There is something very cool sounding about the name Saskatchewan. This is one of the low profile provinces - sparsely populated, known for its extensive flat prairies on which vast quantities of wheat are grown, a growing oil and gas industry, and increasing mineral extraction, particularly uranium. The province even has a city called Uranium City. On Canadian Thanksgiving, we jumped on the Greyhound from Edmonton to Saskatoon. Ah Saskatoon, the city of bridges and the Paris of the Prairies (as they call it). It is a beautiful small city of around 200,000 people situated around the So [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 24th 2008 | 252 Views | [diary=337856]

Lok and the Saskatchewan Legislature
Saskatchewan Grain Elevator

Edmonton doesn’t have a reputation as being the most happening city, and well, that is a fair enough point. We had booked into the hostel for 5 nights and after the second day we were scouring the tourist magazines and the Lonely Planet for things to do over the rest of our time there. The hostel was near Whyte Avenue; a rather funky part of town; and as such has the requisite funky shops, bars and restaurants that two Australian Gen Yers are attracted to. We visited the Alberta Legislature building and took in the free guided tour, in which we [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 21st 2008 | 163 Views | [diary=336750]

Glow  in the dark mini golf
More of the Mall
The Prairies

In order to take advantage of some very unseasonal warm weather, we decided to hire a car for a couple of days and check out some of the sites of Southern Alberta Drumheller is about 130km out of Calgary and is almost certainly the Dinosaur capital of world. The town has a bit of an obsession with these prehistoric beings and is home to the Royal Tyrell Museum (one of the world’s largest dinosaur museums), the world’s largest dinosaur and a dinosaur of some form or another can be found on nearly every street corner. We didn’t see a copy of [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 12th 2008 | 273 Views | [diary=333611]

Hoodoos at Drumheller
Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump
At the Bottom of the Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump

Sulphur Mountain
Sulphur Mountain
The view from Sulphur Mountain after conquering the hike to the top.
Okay, so the blog has taken a back seat for a couple months while we were out trying to save the world one day at a time. The world is still here, so it’s safe to say - mission accomplished! It’s been a crazy few months. Catherine took an unexpected holiday back to Melbourne for a couple of weeks to help out with some family errands, so Lok saw fit to do manly things like white water rafting in Fernie. Fernie is possibly the friendliest town in the Canadian Rockies. It’s a slow paced town, at least in the summer months [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 18th 2008 | 206 Views | [diary=324761]

The Gondola Ride Down Sulphur Mountain
Ahhh, Summer in the Rockies
On the Athabasca Glacier



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