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By Travelling Moni
July 31st 2008

About amusement parks, sightseeing tours and get-togethers ;-)

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The biiiiiiig rollercoaster in La Ronde

Just after the publication of my last entry I noticed that there is one thing I hadn't taken into consideration: That my "Swedish" siblings Ann-Christine and Mikael are not able to read what I'm writing about. So I have decided to write in English this time, and I'll see how it goes. From now on, some entries might be in English, some in German. I hope that my dear German friends will understand everything, and I apologise in advance for any "funky" grammatical or syntactical errors :-). I'm too much into my English-German-French mixture right now .... The days after my [View Full Entry]

By Jeannie s piece of mind
July 30th 2008

Quebec city is beautiful

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Are you ready Mom?
His smile looks sweet but its the look of I am going to kick your butt mom!

From Val-d'Or we continued on to Mont Tremblant where we camped the night. We had a blast the next day up on the mountain on the luge track. The track twists and turns for almost 2kms as it winds it way down the mountain. We did 3 runs and had a blast racing each other all the way avoiding people and obstacles. A must do! Next we were off to Quebec city arriving late in the evening we stopped at vistitor info and found a hotel and booked a tour for the next day. Our hotel told us where we could [View Full Entry]

By kirsterellie
July 30th 2008

Ronery.. I am so ronery..

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Ugh. Not having a good day today. I arrived very early this morning and the guy at the front desk was a bit of a dick, but eventually he was OK. Then this morning another receptionist was a dick too, apparently they're all rude to the English speakers. Effers. I didn't get much sleep so I think that's the reason for how I'm feeling. I'm on the verge of tears as I write this, ugh. I'm kinda sick of being alone. I mean I find people to have conversations with for a few hours or days and that's nice, but I'm [View Full Entry]

By jfkimi
July 28th 2008

À la recherche du sac à dos parfait...

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Kim et son petit sac de tortue...
Osprey Porter 46

Du lac à la ville Jean-François est toujours obsédé par la quête du sac à dos parfait et ce, même 400 jours avant notre départ. On a même réussi à passer nos vacances d'été à poursuivre nos recherches sur le web au lac ste-marie par connection téléphonique -- old school style! En fait, on a aussi revu notre itinéraire en détails, examiné les exigences d'entrée de chaque pays, fouillé nos livres et guides de voyage pour fignoler un nombre incalculable de détails logistiques... Aussitôt revenu du lac et moins de deux semaines après notre première visite dans un magasin de plein [View Full Entry]

By Travelling Moni
July 26th 2008

Me voilà!

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Beim Abendessen bei François's Vater Maurice

Da bin ich also, im wunderbaren Kanada .... besser gesagt, im wunderbaren Québec, auf diesen Unterschied legen die franzoesisch sprechenden Kanadier naemlich viel Wert. Der Flug hierher war recht lang und beschwerlich; unser Flugzeug hatte technische Probleme, so konnten wir erst mit zwei stuendiger Verspaetung vom Flughafen "Charles-de-Gaulle" in Paris starten. Wobei ich sagen muss ... lieber warte ich zwei Stunden laenger, damit alles in Ordnung gebracht werden kann als dass sie dann in der Luft ueber dem Ozean merken, dass etwas nicht stimmt. Ein grosser Fan vom Fliegen war ich noch nie ... [View Full Entry]

By Gaztravels
July 25th 2008

Fireworks in Montreal

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Arriving at La Ronde as a punter

Montreal has a lot of things going for it, the scenery, the old town and a lot of French speaking people. Which is a little strange at first as you're in Canada not France. But it is a nice touch to walk into a shop and be greeted with bonjour hello, as they have an each way bet as to how you're going to answer them back, and there are some shops you just want to keep walking in and out of to hear the accent over and over again. One of the beautiful things about Quebec City though is that [View Full Entry]

By kirsterellie
July 21st 2008

Montreal

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Basilique Notre-Dame de Montreal

So we arrived in Montreal at 10:30 on Monday. We were going to attempt to catch the train to the hostel, but with my massive suitcase, shoulder bag, laptop bag & handbag, and Vanessa’s TWO massive suitcases, we didn’t like our chances. We thought a taxi might be the best way to go. Only the taxis didn’t want to take us either, so we had to get a taxi each. My taxi driver was alright, but did the dodgy and didn’t put the meter on for the ride. Vanessa’s driver was less than pleasant. Vanessa had to ride in the back [View Full Entry]

By jfkimi
July 20th 2008

Test #1 - notre nouveau carnet de voyage

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La terre comme cadeau!
Pour mes 30 ans (passés à NYC), Jean-François m'a offert la terre comme cadeau : un immense globe-terrestre aux couleurs d'antan pivotant sur un magnifique pied en bois travaillé!!! Tout pour nous fai... [more]

Phase : Planification Notre itinéraire tracé depuis déjà plus d'un an... (sur lequel il fût d'ailleurs vraiment facile de s'entendre !) Cette semaine, nous sommes maintenant obsédés par... la recherche du sac à dos parfait - Jean-François la recherche du pack-it cube idéal - Kim et tester notre nouveau carnet de voyage ! [View Full Entry]

By swissmaple
July 19th 2008

I love Montreal summers!

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Downtown Saturday morning
On the weekends, the streets are very quiet in the early hours!

Ah, Montreal. The city that I call home when I travel. We're back in Montreal for the summer, and we're loving it! While Dave and I were running a "chase point" or checkpoint for the Montreal City Chase, we were distracted by a man wearing a clown wig riding on a kid's scooter, chased by a blue bus full of drunk guys, two of which were hanging out of the overhead emergency exit, throwing water balloons at the clown. Meanwhile, the cockroaches and the snakes at our checkpoint wanted to know what the commotion was about. As t [View Full Entry]

By Gaztravels
July 18th 2008

Quebec, such a beautiful place

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The site from above
This is the view from the top of the waterfall

Quebec is one of those cities that impresses you from the time you arrive, which is a big call after a journey that's taken 27 hours door to door. Although our arrival in Toronto on the way is equally imprinted in my mind, but that was only because the pilot tried to leave a Zorro mark on the runway as he landed. There's nothing like a left turn, right turn, left turn as you touchdown! But the landing in Quebec was much less spooky. Today was the first time that the rest of the crew got a look at the site [View Full Entry]

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