Blogs from Canada, North America - page 1548

Just two weeks after our quick trip to northern Norway, we had our annual official visit to another host nation; this time to Canada. Although spouses were invited, I didn't take Linda along as we had been to Canada many times before, although not to Quebec; and we would be taking home leave to the States and western Canada just a little over two weeks after returning from the Canadian trip. 22 June 1990 Friday. The trip began with a flight in a military cargo aircraft to the Canadian Air Force Base a Lahr, Germany in the Rhine Valley. There we had a brief tour of the base and its facilites, and then boarded the weekly passenger jet flight that took Canadian forces personnel back and forth to Canada. Our first stop was at Gander Air ... read more

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An Excerpt from the Travel Journal of Nigel Fox (c. 1940) Entry 30 -- The Fifth Seal Off to Ottawa - Update Notwithstanding this one small victory, there could be no question that the Forces of Darkness were overwhelming the world. We had lost a major advantage: our mole was no longer in Wolf's Lair. The Armanenshaft continued to score victory after victory. Finally Greece fell, and with that almost all of continental Europe was occupied. Panzer divisions under the evil genius of the Desert Fox (I particularly disliked Rommel's nickname) attacked the Empire in Africa. Britain stood alone, decimated. Every night, on their home ground, more and more of my fellow-countrymen, were slaughtered. Morale was at one of the lowest ebbs in history. The Royal family was preparing to flee. Members of Parliament as well ... read more

An Excerpt from the Travel Journal of Nigel Fox (c. 1940) ENTRY 27 -- The Red Horseman The sun made dappled patterns on the ground as I sat on a park bench under the shade of a large maple. My appreciation of trees had grown appreciably since my miraculous encounter several weeks earlier. To my knowledge, my pursuers never figured out how I had outwitted them. I had left England and travelled to Canada via New York. My next challenge would be to find suitable accommodation. Hence, the reason I was sitting on Mount Royal studying the classified section of the Montreal Star. According to one advert, there was a comfortable room to let not far from the park at 3569 Lorne Avenue. The rooming house was large, attractive, and set slightly back from the street ... read more

An Excerpt from the Travel Journal of Nigel Fox circa 1925 Entry 21 -- Bakeapple Pie Norah's research showed that the usual method of Nordic travel was the long-ship. Uniquely built, it could glide across the water. However the vessel was vulnerable to storms. Using the sun and stars for bearing, the Nordic sailors would follow the coastline wherever possible (keeping a safe distance). Recognising the warning signs of bad weather, they would pull into land before the storm broke. Currents were the most important factor in Nordic travel. The Norsemen would move with the flow, even if it meant a longer route. Norah figured that Leif and the Kristmen (Pronounced Krīstmen with a hard k) had followed the strong current up the west coast of Greenland, shifted over round about Cape Dyer and had taken ... read more