I confess that Toronto was chosen at random in response to someone asking "so are you going to Toronto when you're in Canada?". And given the limited time in which I spent researching, I went in fairly blind, and without a word of French. So after my plane ride from Vancouver amongst a bunch of school marching band geeks, I arrived into a bleak Toronto to a top temperature of 3 degrees. Walking to the hostel I thought it had started raining, but no - that was SNOW falling. Not to be deterred by such extremities, I explored the city on foot until I felt the first signs of frost bite and planned my weekend in a city I knew bugger all about (except that I would unfortunately be leaving before the next Toronto Blue Jays ... read more

Well kids, the time has come for me to venture out and explore the big wide world out there since I've been putting it off for many years now. I'm off around the globe on my lonesome to explore foreign stuff, meet random people, experience new things and generally escape the busy life that has become ME. I've decided to document my worldly travels to share it with those that can be bothered reading about it, and write about the predicted disasterous travel stories that are bound to come with my much under-prepared trip. So, sign up and subscribe if you have the time, and then when you have a spare minute you can read about my self-designed, crazy, round-the-world adventure. You too can cringe at my lack of research of countries and cultures, cry at ... read more