Blogs from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, North America
May 20th 2012
On aurait aimé partir plus tôt mais on avait tellement de choses à terminer! Faire le ménage, arroser les plantes, et rentrer les bagages de dernière minute dans le RV... Dès le début, nous avons dût faire des détours! Il y avait une course à Chelsea! Finalement, on a retrouvé notre chemin et tout le monde est occupé. On s’est arrêté à Renfrew pour des informations. Il faisait vraiment chaud dehors. Une chance que les fenêtres du RV étaient ouvertes car on serait mort de chaleur! On s’est assis à l’ombre pour discuter. Ce fut reposant. Maman était un peu moins stressée. Nous sommes maintenant rendus dans le parc Algonquin en Ontario dans le terrain de camping de Mew Lake. En arrivant, nous sommes allés nous baigner dans le lac. Maman et daddy sont allés à ... read more
Brianne's Great Big Indian Adventure
Published: May 5th 2012North America » Canada » Ontario » Ottawa
May 5th 2012
I cannot wait to leave on my trip. I woke up this morning extremely hung over and I am not looking forward to trying to keep the second dose of dukoral down until my flight at 10 a.m. Thanks to my mom, dad, and everyone else who helped me prepare for the internship in India this summer- I am going to miss you guys. I fly out from Ottawa to Toronto at 10 am and then from Toronto to Delhi at 2:45p.m. See you in India, Brianne... read more
May 4th 2012
Last sleep at home. :( Pretty excited and scared all at the same time. I am happy to have seen lots of friends today. I'm almost all packed and ready to go, and weirded out that George keeps taking pictures of me blogging. Oh well! I'll miss him all the same.... read more
May 4th 2012
Another travelling day today from Toronto to Ottawa. Lake Ontario finished and instead of travelling the whole way via highways we went along a road that followed the St Lawerene River. This is the river that has over 1000 tiny islands in it (and is the area that the famous Thousand Island Dressing originated). Beautiful and many of the islands had houses (or holiday homes) on them and were stunning. Would love to see it in winter as apparently the river freezes. Anyway Ottawa is a very pretty city...beautiful in fact. Yep, could live here...lol (except winter would kill me I think). A tulip festival started today and each city park is beaming with hundreds of tulips - some in full bloom and others about to come out in the next week. Beautiful. Had a walk ... read more
May 2nd 2012
We flew into Kuching at around 8pm and made our way to the guesthouse. We checked in and were pretty impressed with the accomodation so we started settling in. Midnight rolls around and we're crawling into bed to hit the hay when Rene sees a bed bug (luckily he has hawk eyes for them!). Immediately we get up and start checking the mattress. No signs of an infestation on the mattress but we find 6 other bugs which we trap in a water bottle. Rene tells the guy at the reception and, unlike our other encounter with bed bugs, he apologizes and upgrades our room to one with an ensuite bathroom upstairs. We leave our stuff there and sleep in the bed bug free room upstairs (we checked). By the next morning they had the old ... read more
March 18th 2012
So... Surprise! I've been home about a week and back in Canada for about 2 weeks. Why is it so cold here!? The last 6 months almost seem unreal as I get back into the swing of things (i.e. job hunting like a crazy person, raiding the kitchen at every available opportunity, unpacking, repacking, unpacking, laundry, cleaning, lazing about, eating, dance parties, jet lag, paperwork). So what to say? The past 3 months were not easy, but they were amazing. I have stories about apples, goats, zims, rainstorms, soccer, food, bikes, revenants... The complete and utter disconnection from the familiar only to have the opportunity to completely and utterly lose yourself in new experiences... I think to pound home the lesson (or whatever it is) was going on a tangent about getting water from a well ... read more
Ottawa en North Hatley -vanaf 10 januari-
Published: March 3rd 2012North America » Canada » Ontario » Ottawa
March 3rd 2012
Vanuit McDonalds Corners vertrokken we naar Ottawa. We hebben nog steeds contact met onze vorige WWOOF hosts en Ross heeft inmiddels weer een provinciale prijs in de wacht gesleept voor zijn werk als energie consultant. Ottawa is de hoofdstad van Canada en hier is ook de zetel van het parlement. Hier werd al een hoop Frans gesproken, omdat Canada volgens de wet tweetalig is en je bij de overheid dus altijd Frans óf Engels mag spreken. Ottawa ligt zoals veel grote steden in Canada bij een samenloop van rivieren en langs één van de oevers was Parliament Hill. Hier stonden de klassiek gebouwde overheidsgebouwen. Op sommige plekken waren nog muren met kanonnen te zien. Je had hier een ontzettend mooi uitzicht over de grotendeels bevroren rivieren. Daar zag je mensen ijsvissen en op een bijzondere plek ... read more
February 10th 2012
Welcome to our Travel Blog - we hope you enjoy our trip along with us. Two sleeps and we are off - Ottawa to Chicago to San Francisco on Sunday - and Monday evening to Auckland - arriving on Feb 15th; with a day to sight see in San Francisco. We will miss Valentine's Day entirely due to crossing the International Date Line - did Dick have anything to do with this timing? After 2 - 3 days in Auckland to get acclimatized, buy stuff including bicycles, pick up our campervan we are off - with our first planned stop in Napier to take in an Art Deco summer festival. Our general intended destinations are the national parks throughout the country. We plan to cycle, hike, kayak, sight see, swim with dolpins, explore the Maori culture, ... read more
January 8th 2012
Today is my day. I'm off to great places; I'm off and away! I cannot believe that this day has come. Life has been a whirlwind leading up to today. I hope to learn a lot in these next three months, but first--the getting there!... read more
January 6th 2012
A little snow on the roads today but not to bad. About 20 minutes from hme to work. Arrived safely.... read more
