Blogs from Canada, North America - page 1236

Nous sommes à St-Clément, chez les parents de Mélanie, dans le Bas-du-Fleuve, à 13 jours du départ! Nous en sommes à préparer scrupuleusement un itinéraire de voyage... dans lequel - et c'est maintenant officiel! - les parents à Mélanie ainsi que François (frère de Mélanie) et Sabine (sa copine) - viendront nous rejoindre! Voici donc une partie d'ébauche d'itinéraire (tout de même très officieux car nous voulons nous garder toute liberté une fois là-bas...) - Arrivée à Lima: 12 juillet 07, vers minuit ou 1ham (ça c'est officiel, du moins on le souhaite!!) ; - Direction sud vers le Chili: quelque part en juillet; - Visite sommaire de quelques lieux au Chili...; - Argentine: quelque part en juillet ou août jusqu'aux abords de septembre ou moins ou plus!; - Quelques saucettes en Uruguay ou Paraguay: qui ... read more

Our trip saga is almost a weather saga. The first day in Grand Pre , Nova Scotia, it was in the mid 60's and rainy. We went to the public library for some internet work. We then drove to Cape Split, a narrow arm of land into the Bay of Fundy, but by the time we got there it was so foggy you could barely see anything. Still an interesting drive. We ended the day with a walk through the Acadia University campus and gardens and a visit to a local winery. The next day we got up to cool, but potentially only partly cloudy skies. Decided to drive to Freeport on Long Island for a whale watching trip. Weather good on the way, but when we arrived it was cloudy, we were the only ... read more

We're not being very good at keeping this thing up to date, so I am going to try and rattle through a few entries now! Arrived in Montreal after a 6 1/2 hour train journey from Toronto that was supposed to take 4 1/2 hours. It was all very pleasant travelling through the countryside, but it was typical laidback Canadian style that no-one even really commented that we were running 2 hours over schedule! It was a bit of a culture shock to discover that the first language in Quebec really is French and although most people spoke English almost or just as well as French, in some areas, they really didn't as much. Cue another incident of having to smuggle food out of a restaurant, when Neil was given a basket of bread instead ... read more

is oollllldddd and extremely loud as EVERYTHING seems to be under construction. I toured the Governor-General's residence at the Citadel, the old fort that protects the entrance to the rest of the river. Learned a lot about Canada's government from a very helpful guide, I was the only one on the tour. Anyway I have some more pics up, just a few from camping, Montreal and Quebec. http://picasaweb.google.com/wired1000/IMLeavingMontreal... read more

Tonight we went to a small Bible camp about 45 minutes from here (not unlike the one in Lambert.) The couple that runs it works with RVICS in the winter. We had a hotdog roast, and then toured the camp….they have farm animals, as well as miniature horses and goats. The mini goats had babies about a month old, and they were smaller than the barn cats! They played around like baby lambs, but they’re colored, and I can’t even explain how cute they were! Then we hiked to a point overlooking the Red Deer River that had a breathtaking view. The river is very high this year, and it’s a wide, slow moving river. The hills surrounding it are green, but have stripes of coal, clay and limestone, so the colors were very vivid, ... read more