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By Sas Sven
May 23rd 2006

Calgary- show me those tools

North America » Canada » Alberta » Calgary

We arrived back in Calgary a day early so we had a nice day to relax and organise a hire car for the rest of the time here before we had to drop off the RV this morning. On the way there, we picked up the hire car with one small hitch- the tire had a big gash in it so we had to go back and get a new one. But apart from that everything ran smoothly. The rest of the day was free to do whatever we wanted so we decided to take Sven’s parents to the shopping centre [View Full Entry]

By sabajah
May 23rd 2006

Vancouver

North America » Canada

Eating peanut butter sandwiches in Seattle

Downtown Vancouver The first thing that struck me about this place, having just left bustling, dirty Latin American cities, was how clean and quiet it was. You can barely hear the electric cars as they cruise down the street and if you step on to the road in front of them, rather than beeping at you and swerving so as not to damage their car, they stop and let you cross the road. What a change. The Trolley Company After 6 months of travelling I arrived in this city with enough money to check into the cheapest hostel I could find [View Full Entry]

By frk
May 22nd 2006

PRIMA TAPPA

North America » Canada » Quebec » Québec City

Buongiorno a tutti i lettori Finalmente riesco a cominciare questo blog... Tutto comincia Sabato 20 Maggio alle ore 13:50 quando il volo AZ610 decolla da Roma FCO alla volta di NY JFK. Il volo procede tranquillo, con l'eccezione di avere al mio fianco TAL PASQUALE AMETRANO DA CERIGNOLA, il quale nel suo pugliese stretto tenta all'istante un approccio di dialogo, reso immediatamente vano dal mio finto appisolamento e dalla visione coatta di numero tre film e mezzo, tutto intervallato da pranzo a base di simil-lasagne vegetariane e simil-vitella. Giusto un paio di Nastro Azzurro si s [View Full Entry]

By Orillia Irishman
May 22nd 2006

Horn Lake camping trip

North America » Canada » Ontario » Burks Falls

Offroadin
A little work to get to this lake. Gravel road then a muddy snowmobile trail.

Wow, so the camping trip this weekend was more than we bargained for. Our site was an island in the middle of a channel in a very large lake. None if any coverage from the elements. We had 90km/h winds, rain, fog, hail, thunder and lighting, SNOW, and 4 hours of glorious sunshine. It was a rough go. Fishing wasn;t the best either. Only 4 caught. Almost got lost in the pitch black after picking up Josh and Rob. Our GPS died, but luckily we had spare batteries. Sorta scary when all u have is a pink line and a little [View Full Entry]

By amazon queen
May 20th 2006

Vancouver, Victoria, Tofino

North America » Canada » British Columbia » Vancouver » Stanley Park

Vancouver
this is where i'm living at the mo.

Hey y'all, Hows everyone doing? O.k, so heres the update so far.... After spending the first week chilling out with my mates Rich, Kev, and Carl in Vancouver, going to a huge park called Stanley Park, drinking, eating out and general kicking back and enjoying Canada, we headed to Vancouver Island through the gulf islands via ferry and onto Victoria (the capital) where the boys are from. Their high school was celebrating its 100th year, so was hosting an all american (!!!) weekend of 'socker', bbq, beer gardens, tour around the school. A very strange affair I have to admit. It [View Full Entry]

By Aussie Jo
May 20th 2006

Life in Banff

North America » Canada » Alberta » Banff

My new home
The town of Banff, or part of it..

Started looking for work on the monday and had a job at a new restaurant in town by the Tuesday but ended up taking a job at The Banff Centre, a big function and conference type place up near Tunnel Mountain. Im working as a food and beverage server and the perks are great, with $5 accommodation per night, free meals when working, cheap gym etc etc. My flat mate is from Toronto and she is great. Most of the workers here are Canadian which makes a nice change from all the Aussies in most of Banff. Loads of the people [View Full Entry]

By Sas Sven
May 20th 2006

Kelowna- Wine tasting

North America » Canada » British Columbia » Kelowna

So today we decided to make the most of the fact that we were staying in the wine growing region of Canada by going wine-tasting. It’s a good thing that Sven’s dad doesn’t drink wine so he can drive us drunkards around. It’s not like in most countries here where you have to be part of a tour group to get into the vineyards. You can just drive up and taste their wine, for free. Perfect. We drove up to the first place and tasted about 4 wines. We bought one bottle there before heading on to the next place and [View Full Entry]

By Sas Sven
May 19th 2006

Vancouver- Swinging not permitted

North America » Canada » British Columbia » Vancouver

Capilano Suspension Bridge
One of the longest suspension bridges I've ever been.

We spent the morning around Vancouver today opting to go and see the Capilano suspension bridge. It is a fairly famous suspension bridge hanging over a deep valley with a river at the bottom. Quite scary if you are afraid of heights I guess. Sven’s mum is afraid of heights but we told her she had to go over this time. Apparently, last time they were there she refused to go over. It really wasn’t so bad and you weren’t allowed to rock it too badly or anything. There were guards sitting in small towers at each end ready to jump [View Full Entry]

By Jord Kat
May 18th 2006

On our way

North America » Canada » British Columbia » Kamloops

Scenery

Left Edmonton at 6:30pm , drove till I couldnt stay awake, stopped at some town before Kamloops and slept for a few hours. Woke up and continued on. Here are some pics from the area. [View Full Entry]

By Sas Sven
May 18th 2006

Vancouver- no, not on the island anymore

North America » Canada » British Columbia » Vancouver » Stanley Park

Vancouver was on the agenda for today. We went to the local shopping centre to pick up some groceries and found that it didn’t even open until midday so seeing as we didn’t want to hang around for that long, we just headed off into town. We grabbed a bus into town and did pretty much split up right away to go our separate ways. Sven and I did the usual wandering around, just having a look at the town and stopping for a drink before we had to meet Sven’s parents again. We had a quick lunch and then went [View Full Entry]

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