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Thu, 30 Jul 2009 | By katang | Views [428] | Comments [1]
Wednesday July 29 th Angus and I left the girls to sleep and wandered off in search of the recommended Wild Flour bakery where we bought some evil almond croissants for breakfast. With kids in tow, we set off for the local bike hire shop and ... Read more >
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 | By katang | Views [494]
Tuesday July 28 th This was the white knuckle day for me: persuaded by the family that a Grade 1-2 rafting trip just wasn’t worth the bother, we’d signed up for a Grade 3-4, so at 7.45 we were whisked off by a stoned New Zealander in a yellow ... Read more >
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 | By katang | Views [418]
Monday July 27 th After another pancake breakfast the girls went to the park and Angus and I visited the Buffalo Nations Museum. A bit of a tacky tribute to the First Nations (don’t think about calling them Indians) it was nonetheless a very ... Read more >
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 | By katang | Views [428] | Comments [2]
Sunday July 26 th Regretfully we left the hostel and headed south. Our first stop, based only on the briefest of mentions in the guidebook, was at Mistaya Canyon. A short walk brought us out to a bridge over rapids, but walking upstream we were ... Read more >
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 | By katang | Views [368]
We slunk guiltily to the car (while our fellow hostellers loaded their worldly goods into their panniers and set off for 100km of mountainous cycling) and headed off to the Icefield Centre and the Athabasca glacier. Here you take a shuttle bus and ... Read more >
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 | By katang | Views [457] | Comments [1]
Friday July 24 th Rhona’s been running a temperature with a sore throat for 3 days and as we’re heading out of civilization and didn’t fancy taking a swine flu victim with us (ok, we were actually more concerned it was her usual tonsillitis) ... Read more >
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 | By katang | Views [330]
After a good night’s sleep we headed off out on Highway 16 to the N-E of Jasper. The views never cease to amaze: vast mountains, turquoise lakes, endless forests interspersed with emergency stops to avoid the deer and wild sheep which wander all over ... Read more >
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 | By katang | Views [415]
We woke around 6 at the train’s first stop in Kamloops. At least the first stop for passengers. The Canadian in fact stopped frequently to let vast freight trains pass – the kind of vast where you start counting the wagons and give up and go off for ... Read more >
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 | By katang | Views [339]
OK guys, after a few days without internet, here's a few updates ! Our last day in Vancouver started at the girls’ request with us hitting the shops. One of the delights of foreign travel to me are the simple but strangely different things of everyday ... Read more >
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 | By dianacchan | Views [541] | Comments [2]
had a great time on the horan family farm. had my first ever sunday roast dinner, mammy horan made roast chicken, bacon, stuffing, potatoes, carrots, brocolli, carrots...it was my first proper meal in i dont even know how long. defintiely the first time ... Read more >
Sun, 26 Jul 2009 | By hbl1187 | Views [293] | Comments [1]
Everything is off to a good start paperwork is well on its way. Just have to finish up my last course before I can get on the Visa application, and move to Incheon for October! I am getting more and more excited/nervous everyday...
Thu, 23 Jul 2009 | By jensen12 | Views [348]
We are now back in Toronto after ag reat trip around the countyside We have beeen restocking our energy for our flight to London on Thursday We have a newcamera, haircut and colour and some new clothes and some more energy So our next story will ... Read more >
Wed, 22 Jul 2009 | By dianacchan | Views [467] | Comments [1]
so first of all, traveller's nightmare: i was robbed! just while changing trains in antwerp, belgium, got my wallet lifted right outta my purse! professionals i suppose. it was absolutely horrendous, i cried and cried and tried to go to the bathroom ... Read more >
Wed, 22 Jul 2009 | By mlisaho | Views [492]
I arrived the day after the famous Calgary Stampede. I think the city was still winding down from it cos the people and buildings were looking a little tired and worn. Suppose it didn't help that I arrived on a rainy day either. But here and there were ... Read more >
Tue, 21 Jul 2009 | By katang | Views [409] | Comments [2]
Amazing the bribery power of a stack of pancakes and maple syrup to get a sleepy 12 year old out of bed. After another great breakfast at Ricky’s we waddled our way down to the SkyTrain and again headed off to North Vancouver. Our destination today ... Read more >
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