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By Mel and Nige
June 15th 2008

June 15 - Le Rocher Percé

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Our first province sign. Expect a few more.

Our first stop on the trip was the spectacular and HUGE Percé Rock. Too bad for us that the tide was in and we couldn't walk out to really appreciate the grandure of it. We parked at a cheap motel and walked along the beach, where we made sure to touch the Atlantic Ocean (or the closest thing to the Atlantic ocean)! The pictures really don't do it justice, it is quite massive and very cool looking. There used to be a second hole, but it collapsed. That must have been quite the scene! After taking our pictures with the rock, [View Full Entry]

By Mel and Nige
June 15th 2008

June 15 -16 - Forillon National Park

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The sign for our fisrt National Park

So after a few hours of driving, we finally arrived at Forillon National Park around 7 PM. Our AWESOME travel book (Lonely Planet Canada) recommended us to camp at Cap-Bon-ami. We headed through all sorts of winding steep hills to arrive at our camp site. Once we got there, we were suprised how the camp site was layed out (think open concept camping), but after seing the scenery of this place, we were very blown away! It is SUCH A PRETTY PLACE. We could see the cliffs (limestones) from our camp site, which was pretty awesome. After setting up our tent, [View Full Entry]

By le g ographe
June 14th 2008

Quelques jours avant le départ...

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Chez moi...
le fleuve Saint-Laurent et l'île d'Orléans depuis mon balcon à Lévis.

Enfin les grandes vacances! C'est le temps pour moi de reprendre la route et je dois dire que je suis assez fébrile... Je poursuivrai donc cet été mon périple américain en explorant la côte Atlantique jusqu'aux Keys de Floride, puis je longerai le golfe du Mexique jusqu'à la Nouvelle-Orléans pour remonter ensuite le Mississippi jusqu'à Memphis et Nashville. J'escaladerai en fin les plus hauts sommets des Appalaches dans les Great Smokey Mountains pour revenir au Québec quelque part en août. Un de mes objectifs et de rencontrer le plus de gens possible pour me faire une idée la plus juste po [View Full Entry]

By Squem
June 11th 2008

Montreal

North America » Canada » Quebec » Montréal

Latin Quartier by night

So here is the promised blog on Montreal, just to show that I did some stuff other than watch the F1!! In total I had 4 full days in Canada, and bearing in mind that I was occupied with the cars from 9-5 most days.... it didn't leave me much time to see the city. Now Montreal is a place I've always wanted to visit. Ever since I was introduced to the world of motor racing and the Villeneuve family I've known that one day I would turn up here. And turn up I did. After an 8 hour flight (I [View Full Entry]

By Squem
June 9th 2008

A bunch of cars going round in circles... or so they say...

North America » Canada » Quebec » Montréal

Jenson Button's Barmy Army
You gotta love the Brits...

Yup, that's right... my first blog if this trip is about the Grand Prix. Did anyone really expect anything else? I mean I've planned this trip to coincide with the race... So anyways, for anyone wanting to read about how much I love Montreal... well they'll have to wait until the next instalment. I've spent the last 3 days sitting on the most uncomfortable sheet of metal surrounded by beer-swigging, vocal canadians... and it's been awesome. Ok at times I've wished that my bum was bigger or more padded as those grand-stands were horrendous. But it's been worth every bum-numbing minut [View Full Entry]

By AllanDalida
June 7th 2008

Queen's Convocation then Montreal Beer Festival

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Leven, Will, Travis Bro, Travis and Anna, TC, and Andrew's head

Hello All! We have not been doing well keeping up with our blog the last couple of weeks, as we were busy preparing for convocation, and then tired and recovering from convocation. Dana flew to Toronto and met up with her family, while I flew to Ottawa to meet with mine. My parents, grandparents and bro all bro all made the cross country trip, and the Thompson's (Mel's parents) were very nice to let us stay with them on beautiful Treasure Island near Kingston. We arrived on Wednesday night, and convocation was the next morning at 9 am. After a couple [View Full Entry]

By Isabelle Casgrain
June 2nd 2008

Partir

North America » Canada » Quebec » Québec City

Ça y est : dans moins d’une semaine, je m’envolerai en direction de l’Afrique, ou plus précisément de Kigali, Rwanda. Ce sera mon deuxième passage sur ce continent oublié, mais inoubliable, et la première étape de mon périple d’un an qui me mènera à travailler deux mois à l’hôpital universitaire de Butare, une ville du Rwanda, ainsi qu’à d’autres hôpitaux rwandais, puis en Écosse pour 6 mois, et pour le reste… on verra ! Il me reste donc une semaine pour tout préparer, faire mes valises, finaliser les achats de dernière minute ainsi que tester [View Full Entry]

By ariebabba
June 1st 2008

Hoe is Nederland zonder Aar en Ink

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Charlotte en Ink in China street

Zo na zo'n slorige vier weken zonder wat van ons te laten horen voel ik me zo schuldig dat ik maar weer eens een blogje schrijf. Uit het oog uit.... nou ja je weet wat ik wil zeggen. Ja, waar was ik ook al weer gebleven drie weken geleden hadden we voor twee weken een gast op bezoek, Charlote een collega van Ink. Ze was hier voor werk (ja, die biologen die hebben het enorm zwaar!) die we vervolgens twee weken lang door heel Montreal hebben gesleurd om deze enorme stad te laten aanschouwen. Ze is er zo weg van dat [View Full Entry]

By Schatzyfloranita
May 31st 2008

C'est un Début!!

North America » Canada » Quebec » Québec City

Moi et flora

Et voilà c'est parti!!! Charles Il ne reste que quelque temps avant de se séparer et d'aller vers des continent bien différent. Un océan et des milliers de kilomètres vont nous séparer!! J'ai passé commencer un petit blog pour toujours pouvoir nous rapprocher. Je sais le temps et les distances peuvent nous faner, mais ce n'est que si moi de désespoir et de solitude, que nous allons bientot affronter. Ici on va toujours pouvoir ce voir, même si c pas comme en vrai, c'est toujours une petite partie de moi ou de toi qui sera si facile à attraper au passage. [View Full Entry]

By swissmaple
May 28th 2008

A month of mini-culture shocks

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Moose!
Spotted in Vermont

Bonjour du Quebec! The past month has just flown by. After we explored a bit of the Vancouver area, we flew east from Seattle to the little airport in Newburgh, New York. The main reason we went all the way across the country was to go to my cousin's wedding in Newport News, Virginia. And what a fun wedding it was! A mix of Columbian, Swiss and cheesy American wedding traditions, with toasts and cheers in several languages and heavy accents. Start with a marriachi band, add the singing Von Trapp family and throw in a dj with a love of [View Full Entry]

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