Blogs from British Columbia, Canada, North America - page 3

The Vacationer conducted an online survey of 1,098 American adults 18 years and older. They were asked, “When flying on a plane, which behaviors from fellow passengers annoy you?” There were frankly no surprises in the responses. The top two most annoying behaviors were tied: disruptive, drunk passengers and having the back of your seat kicked, both coming in at 59.11%. A close third with 48% is smelly co-passengers with either too much perfume or poor hygiene. Poor parenting skills also made it to the list with 46.81% people hassled by inattentive parents. Some of the other offences were smelly foods, armrest hogging, seat reclining, talking too much, boarding/deplaning out of turn, loud music, and taking off shoes. People are also vexed by couples indulging in PDA and fliers getting up to use the restroo... read more

This is it! We leave tomorrow for our UK adventure. We've spend the last year planning and we leave tomorrow. I'm spending the day today doing things like getting my hair done, pedicure, etc. while Don has one last day at work. Tonight we'll celebrate Don's birthday and get our packing done! Between the two large bags we're bringing for Hannah and our own bags, it's going to look like we're planning to move there. We've been watching the London weather for the past week or two and it was supposed to be sunny and warm. As of today, though, they're predicting rain and cool most of the first few days. I'm feeling quite pleased with myself for buying a good raincoat. Don hasn't done any of his packing yet. I think that he's finally decided ... read more

Vancouver, 14 juillet De toutes les villes que j'ai visité, elle gardera toujours une place particulière. La métropole de la Colombie-Britannique, nichée au pied des montagnes sur les rivages du détroit de Géorgie, a un charme certain qui attire migrants et touristes par milliers. Malgré un coût de la vie ahurissant (le prix moyen des maisons dépasse ici le million de dollars), la grande qualité de vie que l'on y retrouve, le décor splendide, la mentalité "West Coast" (certes plus cool et écolo que l'Alberta voisine) et les nombreux attraits naturels et sportifs tout proches (la mer et la montagne, le beurre et l'argent du beurre quoi!) rendent cette ville tout simplement irrésistible. La ballade sur le seawall dans le célèbre Stanley Park nous a encore une fois comblé, avec une trempette d'orteils sur la non ... read more

Kamloops, Colombie-Britannique, 8 juillet Ah, les Rocheuses! Tout les superlatifs du monde sont ici applicables, avec raison! La partie canadienne de ce grand système montagneux qui traverse les Amériques attire depuis longtemps les amateurs de paysages et de randonnée. Avant la pause pandémique, ils étaient près de cinq millions à visiter le plus ancien (1885) et le plus célèbre des parcs nationaux canadien, Banff. Aujourd'hui, alors que le tourisme mondial reprend de plus belle, l'afflux de visiteurs est tel que certains sites perdent de leur charme en raison d'une congestion monstre. Nos visites aux Lac Louise et Moraine ont fait chou blanc, les accès étant bloqués dès 9h00 en matinée. La petite ville de Banff est littéralement prise d'assaut, tant par les canadiens, les américains, mais aussi cette année par les européens et les asiatiques, notamment ... read more

Today was our last full day on the ship. In the morning, we will leave the ship and transfer directly to the airport. We fly home tomorrow. Today we slept-in… until almost 8am… which is almost 10am Missouri time. We ate breakfast and I packed everything. We did our “tour of the ship” a little late this cruise – it’s where we start at the bottom and go through each floor seeing everything. This is a smaller ship built back when the ports were the entertainment so no bumper cars or 4D theaters exist. It is a lovely ship. I took pictures of a few of the interesting items we saw today. This ship was built in 2004. It is well maintained and this cruise to Alaska is the second cruise out since COVID hit in ... read more