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By Meems
April 5th 2006

Banff, Lake Louise & Jasper

North America » Canada » Alberta » Lake Louise

BBQ in Banff

Banff continued to be an amazing part of my trip. We met some great people and decided that we wanted to stay around a bit longer than planned. We noticed in reception a sign looking for volunteers so we enquired what that was all about. It turned out that if you volunteered to work in the hostel between 9am-1pm during the day, you could get a free nights accommodation-BRILLIANT! Or so we thought! The next morning at 8am, Lucy and I awoke and resentlfully got up...my tonsils were on fire and I considered pulling a sicky but figured on day 1 [View Full Entry]

By naomi smit
April 5th 2006

Flames game!!

North America » Canada » Alberta » Calgary

Europe goes crazy about soccer, Canada however is more into HOCKEY! As mentioned before, I must admit I can't help loving that sport either.. So after a Dino's and a Hitmen game it was time for the real thing.. The Flames!!! As the third largest city in Canada (after Montreal and Toronto), Calgary ofcourse must have a decent hockey team, and they do, the Calgary Flames are doing pretty good, 3rd in their league at the moment. Therefore, one of the things I had to do before leaving Calgary was to visit the Flames. During a group meeting Norbert, another Dutch [View Full Entry]

By Melissa van Gestel
April 4th 2006

31 maart - 2 april Montreal

North America » Canada » Quebec » Montréal » Old Montréal

Montreal Bord!

Een week geleden kon ik gratis meerijden met de Canadezen naar Montreal, maar afgelopen weekend was ons geplande weekendje naar Montreal met de hele groep. Vandaar dat ik nu weer een blog plaats over Montreal. Deze keer had ik natuurlijk al het sightseeing al gedaan, dus wat is dan de reden om naar Montreal te gaan? FEESTEN!!!!! In deze blog zullen dan ook vooral de party pic's te zien zijn, omdat jullie de meeste gebouwen, kerken etc. al hebben gezien. Op deze trip waren we met 14 internationale studenten en we verbleven in een erg mooi Hostel. De Canadezen hadden een [View Full Entry]

By Sareio
April 4th 2006

4 Days left...

North America » Canada » Alberta » Calgary

Only 4 days left until departure. Days are flying by, seems that there are so many last minute things to do! At the gym this morning (Kirsten can attest to this), my scrambled thoughts are coming out in rather humorous sentences... something about the fact that I would never trust anyone to tint my lows and brashes... lol. This is a good indication of where my head is at right now. Excited - absolutely! the last time I left the continent it was 1993. I am looking forward to a world entirely different from what I am used to, the experiences [View Full Entry]

By Glyn Jones
April 4th 2006

Am I ready yet?

North America » Canada » Alberta » Calgary

Where could I go?
When I am over there I am going around with www.busabout.com and this is a map of where I could go with them, oh the options

Well here I am getting ready for the trip. I'm just testing this thing out now to make sure that it works before I go over because if it doesn't that would require some last minute playing around. I've almost finished all my shopping and by the end of this week I will have my pack all ready to go. The passports still haven’t come in yet and I just found out that my bus ticket was reserved for a Glynn Jones with the wrong first name and also that for some reason they think I’m a female so needless to [View Full Entry]

By nugget
April 4th 2006

getting ready

North America » Canada » British Columbia » Aldergrove

2005 12 20 Mild Winter
This is the only snow we recieved this year. Since then it's just been rain, rain, and more rain.

For all of you that don't know where Aldergrove is... hope this helps MyLocalArea. See where I'm really from. Travels plans are confirmed and I leave April 8th to board the beautiful Radiance of the Seas with Royal Caribbean in Miami. I am trying to tie up some loose ends at home, but have spent most of my time and money shopping most recently. I think I may have scared my mom with the power shopping trip we took. After 2 hours and 3 stores, I had purchased 3 pairs of shoes, 4 shirts, and a big box stuffed with clothes [View Full Entry]

By tomandmike
April 3rd 2006

Montreal

North America » Canada » Quebec » Montréal » Old Montréal

I know what you're thinking...
i've never seen something so exquisitely beautiful either! - Mike's mullet in all it's freshly cut glory

Well for the weekend we went to Montreal with all the internationals. We hired cars and drove up on the friday, went out for dinner that night at a nice place near our hostel. On saturday we walked around for most of the day checking out the city and then went to a really cool pub kinda like little creatures in freo, by our hostel and had beers, chips and gravy. was really nice. That night we went to a club called Living which was ok but i was pretty tired. Although having said that, caitlin gave me a hair cut [View Full Entry]

By Cappy_B
April 3rd 2006

A Big City

North America » Canada » British Columbia » Vancouver

Canada Place

I hate fire alarms, as it was a fire alarm that woke me up at 2.30 in the morning as somebody decided that it was a good idea to through a fag butt down a trash shoot. So everybody had to evacuate the building as it takes 4 fire trucks to put out the smallest fire(why you need 4 trucks I have no idea). I have to wait for at least 45 minutes in my pj's be for they let us back to bed. This mornig I looked out the window to be confronted with a hail of rain, then I [View Full Entry]

By ittybittybeat
April 2nd 2006

Ready...

North America » Canada » British Columbia » Vancouver » YVR

Two weeks and counting. My two month itinerary is: Vancouver, Honolulu, Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore, Bangkok, Dubai, Cairo, Cape Town, Frankfurt, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Santiago, Toronto, San Francisco and finally Vancouver...phew! Can I do it? Time (and this site) will tell! [View Full Entry]

By Kiwidane
April 2nd 2006

R&R in Victoria

North America » Canada » British Columbia » Vancouver Island

Sooke Pot Holes
Hardly your stereotypical "pot hole" - stunning beauty created by mother earth.

Traveling can be very demanding. Having to decide where to go, where to eat and who to talk to every day is a full time job. Especially after a week in Whistler where hard work included: Taking about an hour every morning to get at least four layers of clothing on, getting yourself back up after falling into half a meter or powder, cooking macaroni and cheese every night because you are on a budget and having to try at least four new beer brands every night (market research - have decided I’m going to be a freelance beer expert) and [View Full Entry]

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