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By johnandpudd
June 27th 2006

Back in Canada, eh!

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Hello everyone. Let me just say that the whether this time in Canada is much much better. As you all know I left Germany on the 19th of this month for a little solo adventure and things are going swimmingly. I spent 3 nights in Montreal, the bi-lingral French/English speaking part of Canada in the province of Quebec, and had a very different experience to that John and I had 3 months ago. Its a shame i didnt get here a week later cos they where setting up for a massive jazz festival and i think there was something to do [View Full Entry]

By Coffeecat
April 14th 2006

Friendly Manitoba

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Friendly Manitoba
Trust the license plates

My journey across Canada has continued eastbound to Manitoba, first setting foot in Winnipeg. Nothing immediately grabbed me about the streets of this city, so I found a donut shop and ran my finger down my list of nearby hostels. Most hostel owners seem to find locations nearest bus stations, which I greatly appreciate considering my map reading skills. I circled the winning write up, and set off. Within a few moments I did a couple of backpacking pirouettes on the street just trying to confirm the right direction, and was quickly approached by a local laughing at my dance moves. [View Full Entry]

By novarella
December 12th 2005

saskatchewan and manitoba

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well, then we took the train east. john and i slept through saskatchewan. here's what manitoba looks like, in a nutshell. we stopped in winnipeg for about an hour. just enough time to look at the fancy train station that was designed by the guy who designed grand central station in new york [img=http://i12.photobucket.com/albu [View Full Entry]

By Bon Bon on the Go Go
November 6th 2005

Last day in Winnipeg

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Waiting for the train Spent lots of time at the Forks Train to Edmonton. I didn't have too much planned for today since the "main attraction" of getting on the westbound train towards Edmonton wasn’t to happen until about 5PM. So Natalie, Laura and I took our time packing up our stuff and having a leisurely breakfast before heading over to the train station to check in our bags. At breakfast we chatted up this cool retired couple from New Zealand. They've been travelling around Canada and the US for almost five months now. They bought a used camper van and [View Full Entry]

By Bon Bon on the Go Go
November 5th 2005

Long walk to the Assiniboine Zoo

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Brown Bears

Long walk to the zoo Bears, cats, birds & kangaroos Chilly out but nice. I decided to change my plans today and go to the zoo with Laura as opposed to checking out the Manitoba Museum and the Planetarium. We left around 11:30, after a leisurely breakfast and walked for a good hour before coming up on the zoo area. It was a little chilly out but not too bad once we got walking. You should have seen how red my cheeks got...perma blush. haha. It was pretty quiet at the zoo. There were perhaps six to eight cars in the [View Full Entry]

By Bon Bon on the Go Go
November 4th 2005

Another easy going day in Winnipeg

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Me, Brooke and Marnie

Day two in Toba Another day in the Peg Easy Peasy day. I had a leisurely morning at the hostel since I made plans to meet up with Marnie, Brooke and Erin for lunch and they were going to be picking me up at the hostel at about 11:45. The thing is, once again I woke up super early this morning...6AM! I think with the time change on the weekend and then another one hour time change coming into Manitoba has really done something to my internal body clock. Must think it's 8AM. So I lay in bed for at least [View Full Entry]

By Bon Bon on the Go Go
November 3rd 2005

I'm in Winterpeg!

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Bear on Broadway.
These were on display along Broadway during the summer and are to be auctioned off to raise money. Most were removed already but the one outside the WCB building was still sitting there.

Haiku mental block Recovering from train ride I'm in Winnipeg. I thought I'd start off with sharing my horoscope as read in today's newspaper. Pisces: "Your ambitions are really growing. (You've noticed.) You've got big plans about publishing, the media, travel, education and moving on in the world. Today is a good day to talk to the head honcho. People are very impressed with you now." I always get a good laugh from reading my horoscope. So who is the head honcho? Would that be God?? Anyhoo, I made it into Winnipeg yesterday afternoon about 4PM and considering I was on [View Full Entry]

By Bon Bon on the Go Go
November 2nd 2005

Journey to Winnipeg

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Sitting on the train Taken a vow of silence. Haha. Just kidding. 07:32/06:32 The clocks have turned back one hour sometime in the middle of the night. 07:01 I’ve just been admiring the view outside the window. Yesterday there were scores of lovely trees with lots of lovely reds, oranges and yellows. Today there are lots of coniferous trees (sorry to say that I never did pay attention on how to decipher a fir from a pine from a??) and little lakes. A lot of the lakes were really still and it looked like glass with a bit of steam hovering. [View Full Entry]

By The Open Road
July 12th 2005

Hippy Girls and Organic Food Courts...

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Freak Show under the Big Top
Ladies and Gentlemen, Children of all Ages come and see this Australian Freak Xavier Rudd Who sold his soul to the devil for talent, is able to breath in a continuous loop and can play a mean digareed... [more]

My world came shattering down as I learned the amount of fun it was possible to have. Its hard to explain why this was the best weekend of my life. Maybe it was the Amateur strip night at Club 3D, maybe it was the mind boggling array of amazing live music, maybe it was the 5AM jam sessions in a castle, or maybe it was being at one with 10,000 dirty hippies. The heavens opened up, thunder and lightning began their dance and oceans of water came barreling down from above, as the 97' beige Mazda Protege rolled on. The car [View Full Entry]

By Road Trippers
July 11th 2005

Out of Ontario

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Flooding in PLP
Not sure, but we don't think that hay bales are meant to float!!

Finally, changed time zones and left Ontario in the rear view mirror! A lot fewer trees where we are now in Brandon, MB. Made great time on the highways from Thunder Bay to Kenora. Then we drove through a short deluge of rain, the leftovers from what caused the flooding in Portage La Prairie (see pics) and Brandon, MB. Glad to see flat, straight highways. Quite different from what we've driven the last couple of days in Ontario. Stay Tuned..... [View Full Entry]

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