The drive to Québec was pretty boring. Along the way, we stopped for a poutine soup (tip: don’t ask for extra gravy and cheese in the province of Québec because they will give you lots!) at a restauraut at Trois Pistoles. Afterwards, our GPS took us to Levis, where we took a ferry that took us across the St-Laurence river straight to Québec city. It is funny because, it rained during the whole drive, but as soon as we got on the boat, it stopped raining. We were quite lucky for that part! The boat ride was really nice because we [View Full Entry]

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As hard as it was to leave the beautiful Forillon National Park, we packed our things and left for Gaspésie National Park. We drove along the coast and mountains of the Gaspé Peninsula. That was an incredible drive. There was alot of super high hlls, clffs with water falls coming out of them and the gorgeous St-Laurence beside us all the time. Once we got into the park, we tried to find the place where we were suppose to pay for the camping and the entrance fee, but there was no one there. We had to take a 7 km dirt [View Full Entry]

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Sateisesta Vancouverista tie vei sateiseen Edmontoniin. Siellä ei oikeastaan ollut mitään kiinnostavaa. Kävin maailman suurimmassa ostoskeskuksessa, West Edmonton Mallissa, ja se oli kammottava paikka se. Muuten lähinnä ajelin eestaas metrolla, kun keli oli mitä oli. Vielä sateisempi oli Calgary, joka kaupunkina vaikutti näistä Albertan suurkaupungeista paljon mielenkiintoisemmalta. Nyt valitettavasti pikainen Calgary-kokemus jäi todella vajavaiseksi kun ei kaatosade paljoa innostanut kylillä hengailemaan. Albertan harmaudesta ilmasilta vei minut kerralla itään, Ontarion New Yorkiin, eli Torontoon. Torontossa majapaikan tarjosi Helkan kanadalainen vaihtarikaveri Jessica. Kaupunki vei kerralla sydämeni! Toronto on samalla tavalla innostavan onnistuneesti monikulttuurinen kuin New York. Kelikin oli taas (pääasiassa) kesäinen ja kapunki [View Full Entry]

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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]

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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]

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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 possible [View Full Entry]

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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]

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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 minute [View Full Entry]

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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]

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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 le fameux Lariam qui est censé [View Full Entry]

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