Blogs from British Columbia, Canada, North America - page 428

We left Vancouver on our 6 hour bus ride which turned into a 7 and a half hour bus ride due to the weather and poor visibility from the snow. We stayed in Kelowna, the town closest to Big White resort (about 1 hour's dive away) for 2 nights where we bought all our ski gear. We went out for pizza but missed the end of the Superbowl (Indianapolis Colts beat Chicago Bears) but it isn't anywhere near as big here in Canada as it is in USA. Then the next day we moved up to Big White. We stayed with Waz, his sister Heidi and their 3 other housemates in a 2 bedroom condo for about 1 week. It was a little difficult to find long term accommodation here. The reservation centre only does short ... read more

Kaere alle, Saa er min tour de Nordamerika begyndt. Som nogle af jer ved, bliver det uden Jacob Holdt, som jeg oprindeligt skulle have rejst rundt med i en maaneds tid, men en gammel aftale, han havde med en filmfotograf, blev i sidste oejeblik genoptaget. Til gengaeld vil han give mig adresser og telefonnumre paa mange af sine venner, som jeg kan bo hos herovre, naar jeg fortaeller ham, hvilke byer jeg planlaegger at besoege. Saa selv om jeg maaske ikke kommer til at rejse med ham rundt, bliver det i hvert fald i hans fodspor til en vis grad. Da jeg nu selv kan bestemme min rejseplaner, er jeg startet ud i Vancouver i Canada, hvor min moster Mona (som jeg er opkaldt efter) har boet, siden hun flyttede fra Danmark til Canada for 40 ... read more

After a fairly quick flight from Tokyo (8 hours goes quickly when you can chose you own movies on your own tv screen and play computer games) we landed in Vancouver. We arrived at about 9am. The Canadian Customs was a bit more serious, they all wear bullet proof vests in the airport. They checked where we were coming from and what passports we were travelling on and waved us past. Then we completed immigration and collected our luggage before completing the working holiday visa stuff, which has been of no use anyway as we decided not to work at all. Next we took a taxi with a crazy Indian driver to our hotel. Vancouver isnt all that pretty. Its mostly dirty and you can tell from the streets that the city has a drug problem. ... read more

We are heading down to vancouver wednesday so that we can catch the noon flight thursday morning. We will be staying at the covetted HI-Vancouver Central That night we are hoping to hit up MEC to see if we can get some last minute gear. At the least it will be an entertaining evening. The following day we will be cruizing down to the airport early, standing in line and waiting to taxi off to singapore (with a small stop long enough to refuel in south korea). Then there will be 4 days at another hostel. I will try to update then!... read more

Well. It's been ages since I even checked out any travelblogs, let alone update ours. Lindsay and I have been busy as beavers at the university. Planning events, studying hard, volunteering at the Women's Resource Centre, etc. On weekends Lindsay has been the responsible one, working at the Marmalade Cat Cafe (a cute and cosy coffee shop here in town) and I've been snowboarding my precious study hours away- what a pity! :) This week is reading break, I am traveling to Toronto for a visit with family and friends and Lindsay will be up at Big White, enjoying the snow and time off of work! Hopefully we will both get some reading done though, seeing that it is 'reading' week. Anyway, more photos and adventures to come - hopefully sooner than later! peace, love ... read more