Blogs from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, North America - page 24

Everything I have read about travel told me to expect nothing, but embrace everything and really feel as though I did....... I may have set out and ended up with a few unfulfilled hopes, but my openness to experiance led to see a much greater picture of what my central Canadian brothers live like. No were before have a seen a crowd so entranced in unit as I did on Canada Day, never have I felt the pride as I did touring parliament call me a little weird but it was such an experience to see where the laws and values of our country are shaped. I felt very humble walking the same halls as the great leaders of our past and before the leaders of the future. I learned much from my visits to the ... read more

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We were very pleased to spend some time with Larry, Jan and Sarah at their Ottawa home. Larry worked with Darren at the ACCC on exchange from the Canada equivalent, eight years ago. Larry cooked us a wonderful BBQ, replete with Melbourne placemats and Jacob's Creek wine, so we were made feel much at home, though the Canadian ribeye was probably better than your average Aussie cut. During the day we spent an afternoon at the National Gallery that was well worth seeing. Today we travelled to Brockville, On, at the St Lawrence River to do a short cruise around the lovely part of the river that has roughly 1000 islands over 70 kilometres. The scenery was wonderful but the commentary was unfortunately, inaudible.... read more

I decided I should set one of these up for when I'm off and about this summer. Last year I had all my updates on facebook; the family couldn't see what was going on, so I figured a blog would fix that problem. If you've talked to me over the past few months, you know the plans seem to be everchanging. I do believe I've finally come to my final itenary though. About time eh, with only 17 days to spare... So here's the deal - I fly into Frankfurt and connect into Paris. The rest of my European adventure will (mostly) take place on the bus as I am cheap like that and don't mind the occasional overnighter. The next two weeks will be spent hopskotching across the continent - I know 1-3 days per ... read more

The last six months has been one of the most amazing experiences of my life. Here is the run down, for anyone who missed it: NEW YORK CITY - September 27th to 29th, 2008. I stayed in Brooklyn and visited with two friends that I had met in Nepal. AUSTRALIA - September 30th, 2008 to January 10th, 2009. I traveled on my own and visited Sydney, Brisbane, Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo, Toowoomba, Maleny, Montville, Rainbow Beach, Tin Can Bay, Hervey Bay and Fraser Island, Noosa, the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, Byron Bay, Nimbin, Tuggerah (where I worked on a carnation farm), the Blue Mountains, Canberra, Melbourne, drove the Great Ocean Road, celebrated Christmas on St Kilda beach, celebrated New Year's at Sydney's botanical gardens, Cairns, went diving in the Great Barrier Reef, Airlie Beach, the Whitsundays, ... read more