Blogs from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, North America - page 15

Less than a week to go. I think I have everything now, so just have to finish packing. Here's the map of the planned locations we will be going to: Rishikesh for the 11-11-11 Yoga Festival, Amritsar to visit the Golden Temple, Agra to visit the Taj Mahal, and New Delhi to visit Qutb Minar. Those are just the highlights. I hope to see more than that, but we'll see how the trip unfolds. My travel mates and I also discussed visiting Jaipur, but have left that as an option for now. Four weeks will go by fast.... read more

Ok, so I've decided to start a travel blog for my trip to Greece. I haven't done this before so it's going to be a learning experience. If anyone has an pointers they can give me for how to format things on this site, feel free to drop me a note!!! ... read more

We are now in Ottawa after travelling by train from Toronto which was all fine, managed to find the bus from the station and have now spent the night banged up in Ottawa Jail! Block 6 Cell 6. Yes ok its a hostel now but the rooms are all the original cells and you sleep in bunks. It's quite an amazing place and slept better than I did in Toronto in the supposed hostel there. Which turned out to be a room in a chinese boarding house, we were right next to the bathroom and all night long people were in and out, the bed was as hard as a board and made your bones ache! Today we are staying at the Barefoot Hostel (named because you cant wear shoes!) it is really lovely but it ... read more

We were scheduled to go to our first dealership at noon so unfortunately we missed the yoga classes that happen on the lawn right in front of Parliament every Wed. I really would have liked to see Steven Harper in his yoga pants…ok let’s erase that visual haha. So after having tea on the terrace and enjoying the view we headed off to Kia 417 where we met General Manager Linda Carriere. They were having a special summer event and had the car tents set up. It’s really cool you just set it up like a normal tent but then attach to the main cargo area. I thought it was really cool that management decided to match whatever the employees brought in and donated. Just as we had gotten there the girls were just coming back ... read more

When we left Robert’s place on Friday it finally felt like we were truly on our way home. It was a short trip as we only went as far as Ottawa, but we were now into Ontario (and would be in Ontario for over a week before we finally crossed it all). In Ottawa, we visited the Museum of Nature as they had a temporary Giant Mammals exhibit that the boys wanted to see. This was really a great museum. The giant mammals were good, but so was the rest of the museum; with a dinosaur section, marine animals, birds, mammals, insects, etc. In each area there was a good interactive area for young kids so Marc really enjoyed it too. I think his favorite was the bird hospital, where he spent a great deal of ... read more