Blogs from Canada, North America - page 1451

This place is very Montreal - Daniel Deason 2002 That was a phrase used to describe the town hall hotel in north melbourne but i guess it could also be used to describe...well...Montreal...this place is very beautiful but also so so cold...the people here really don't speak a great deal of english but you can easily get by...and they don't seem to mind if you talk english to them...or not that we can tell anyway... yesterday we watched the Olympic Ice Hockey at a sports bar...and you know in australia when you go to the footy and you spend more time abusing your own players for imcompetance than actually encouraging them or congratulating them? eg...come on lloydy you f!@#ing girl, put your bloody body on the line!!...well they don't do that here...they are super super serious ... read more

The bus back to Calgary left at 6.30. So the alarm rung at 5.20... Pfff.. Hard to get out of bed.. The annoying thing was that, after we got dressed, we found out the kitchen, where we left our groceries for the bus ride, had been locked. It was supposed to open at 6, but it didn't, so we headed over to the bus without our nice food... :( However, Mat could not bear the disappointment, so he ran (!) back after we checked in, with only 15 minutes left before the bus would leave. A few minutes before departure Mat returned, as Freya and I already expected, empty-handed.. However, the bus did not leave at 6.30, not at 6.40.. etc. There appeared to be something wrong with the bus, so we had to wait for ... read more

The original plan was to go to Seattle today. However, some research showed us this was not as easy as we thought it would be. One ferry didn't go in winter, one didn't take cars and the other left earliest at 4 pm. The only option would be to get up very very early, take the ferry to Vancouver and then drive to Seattle. But since this would leave us only very little time to spend in Seattle, we changed our minds and decided to spend another day in Vancouver instead. We planned to take the ferry at 11, but this one was unfortunately already full, so we had to wait for over 2 hours for the next one. Thank god for inventing playing cards ;).. When we finally arrived in Vancouver, we decided to use ... read more

Yup, I've arrived back at my batcave located right in the middle of nowhere Canada. Now begins the job search and the restlessness until my next far out adventure. Ah yes...the next trip. Definately getting off the continent again I figure, I have a really bad case of wanderlust with a heaping side of lunacy that needs to be fufilled. I can never rest in one place for long or else I start to lose it. I have to see the whole world yet and I'm only up too around 10 countries explored in great detail so far. That's a ton left to go to! I'm excited thinking of all the possibilities yet to come :D If only travelling was cheaper. Same with booze. Better yet everything should be free...yeah that would work. *Reminder on next ... read more

18/2/2006 It was up early again to return the car before 8a.m, and I got it there safely. I'm very proud of myself that I managed to navigate Canada without the hint of an accident, considering I've lost count of how many times I've nearly been run over crossing the road. For the rest of the day we tied up loose ends in preparation for our journey to Billings, Montana. It's been 15 years since I went to school in Billings so I was excited/nervous/apprehensive all at the same time. 19/2/2006 Packing wasn't much fun, and luckily for me Beck did the majority of the work sore elbow and all. We have been so lucky to have the use of Sal and Phil's house and hopefully some day we can repay them one way or another. ... read more