From Winnipeg we flew to Toronto and then up to Ottawa. Arriving at 21:30, just in time for a trip to the pub. We went to a bar just round the corner from the hotel and enjoyed a couple of pints before retiring for a good night's sleep. The next day I slept in and was up and off out at 11am. Being right in the centre of Ottawa meant not to far too walk to get to the main sights. I walked a couple of blocks and just happened to pass a Starbucks - I tell ya, I can sniff [View Full Entry]

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I only had a few hours to discover Winnipeg. We arrived late one night and the next day I got up to a sunny morning. I stepped out of the hotel and soon discovered why Winnipeg is known for it's wind. I stood on the kerb to cross the road and literally got blown from one side to the other. Glad at that point I hadn't styled my hair in any particular way as it ended up in a huge beehive in front of my face!!! Indeed, the intersection of Portage and Main, in Winnipeg's downtown core, is known as one [View Full Entry]

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I took advantage of a late check in at work and headed over to Calgary the day before to spend some time with my good friends Brandon and Debbie and their three little ones - Ocean, Mason and Kai. I met Brandon and Debbie around 8 years ago when I still lived in Shoreham-by-Sea on the South Coast of England. Brandon worked for Ricardo, the same company as Alan my brother works for. They are originally from South Africa and were in the UK on a visa for a couple of years. Their visa was running out and they decided to [View Full Entry]

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I left from Calgary on Friday the 17th, very early in the morning. Getting up at 4:30 am Calgary time - but more importantly, 3:30 am Vancouver time - yuck!!! It was day one of a 4 day work pairing. The first day saw us travel from Calgary to Hamilton, Ontario and then on to Moncton, New Brunswick. We got to our hotel in Moncton at 5pm and it was a beautiful sunny afternoon. I had a quick change and then went out for an evening stroll along the Petitcodiac River. Blue skies and great outdoors was a lovely combination after [View Full Entry]

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It's been a long few months since Mike dropped me off in Calgary, Alberta. July 3rd saw the start of the next chapter - a new job and a new way of life for the time being. After 3 months of unemployment I started Flight Attendant training with Westjet, a Canadian carrier. It saw me returning to days of old, when one dosses down with others in slightly different living conditions. My friends Miriam and Chiemi, who also worked at Harmony, arranged to stay in the same house as me. We each had a room - they had bare rooms with [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone, Sorry if you get a travelblog and wonder what's going on. The Travelblog website went through some technical difficulty, in that it crashed and lost a lot of travelblogs as a result. We lost 13 - so a bit of re-writing is going to be done. If we send out some by accident sorry, don't read them :) Well, only if you want to. Anyway, Vancouver has lovely sunny weather at the moment. Here are a few pictures so that you have something to look at. Happy Summer Time... [View Full Entry]

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We left Jasper and started the nearly 4 hour ride to Edmonton. The journey was an interesting one as we were caught in an amazing storm on the way. The rain came down in a torrential downpour and you couldn't see beyond the front of the Jeep. Cars were pulling off to the side of the road and thunder and lightening was erupting all around us - fun!!! It was hard to know which was to look as the lightening was sending forks on one side and then to the other. We eventually drove through it and watched the huge black [View Full Entry]

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With the prospect of not seeing one another for 4 weeks and my soon to be incarceration into a 5 week training schedule, saw us take the long way to Calgary. I needed to be in Calgary for July 3rd to start my training with Westjet, so we throw in a mini road trip. We left early on Thursday morning and drove to Kamploops in the BC Interior and then up past Mount Robson and into Jasper National Park. We found a nice room to kip in for the night and went out for some dinner. The next day we woke [View Full Entry]

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Hmmm, tricky to remember. We went to Salt Spring Island in April for a long weekend. Usually we would head over to Tofino on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. It's stillness and tranquility is just beautiful and we really love it there. However, for this trip we thought we'd try somewhere different. Salt Spring Island is just off the coast of Vancouver Island. It's nestled and cacooned by the bigger island and the mainland not too far away. We took a BC ferry from Tswassen over to Swartz Bay on the big island and then another ferry over to Salt [View Full Entry]

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