Post-Holiday Québec Carnival: the fun doesn’t end after New Years!
When thinking of what to write for this month’s post, I was quite stumped. I figured there would be far too many articles floating around everywhere on the web regarding the holidays. So how about what happens after? How to spend the remaining winter months? Personally, I will be spending the months of January through April in Québec City, which happens to be one of my favorite places in the province and even the North American east coast.... Read More
Road tripping part deux
(Continued from Road Tripping, Part 1) This is the time when I realize that I’ve talked a big game about how I much enjoy traveling solo and then I’m stuck in the middle of nowhere. The truth is, I was pretty scared. Without cell service, miles away from civilization and not a car on the road as long as I had been awake, trepidation started to settle in. With the wind howling and trees swaying in the light of the moon, I walked over to the closed... Read More
Escaping City Boundaries
City or country?! Lying back in the sun, eyes closed with the breeze from the lake cooling me and listening to the band of crickets and cicadas, it’s hard to believe that I’m in the centre of Canada’s capital city. Living in Ottawa, we are spoilt for choice of where to escape the noises and heat of the city. Parks, lakes, rivers and beaches spread all over, waiting to be enjoyed and discovered. I love exploring these places, which makes... Read More
In the Land of the Midnight Sun
Summer in Yellowknife: a place where the sun never sets, where seemingly suicidal pike fish chase down your fishing reel, where the pick-up truck reigns supreme (more so than the United States’ south) and where mosquitoes are organized into what can only been deemed military platoons. I had the wonderful fortune of visiting Yellowknife for ten days during the month of July, and while not precisely falling into my writing milieu of... Read More
Settling in Abroad
Now I know this may seem a strange topic for this week, but I have decided to take a look at the practicalities and normalities of living life abroad. 18 months ago, (today, ironically!), my plane landed in Canada and I have been living here since. Before moving here, I planned very little, prepared very little and just simply packed my clothes and moved here. Now, for anyone reading this who knows me, that’s kind of rare. Admittedly, whilst I have... Read More
Wishlists
I’m sure that 90% of people reading this are the same as me and that somewhere hidden safely away (so as not to be a constant reminder, but equally a heavenly escape) have a ‘wish list’. Now this could be a list of anything-you may even have multiple wish lists of varying topics (in case you hadn’t noticed, I’m one of those ‘list’ types!) But the one specifically in my mind today is, naturally, my travel wish list. Wish lists come in... Read More
An Ottawa-n Adventure
It was an embarrassingly long time into my life (and scarily close to my decision to move to Canada) that I found out the Toronto was not the capital of the huge white country. I forgive anyone who still is of the understanding that little Ottawa ISN’T the capital. It would seem that Toronto has it all — the skyline, financial centers, the huge hockey team, better shops, harbour front and so on. Whereas Ottawa is far more small-town... Read More
A Few Favourites
Photographs are an excellent way to save memories of people, places, friends, events, sunsets, scenery etc. While at times it is important to put the camera down and just look at the beauty of the scene in front of you, sometimes its those random shots you take, or the ones that remind you of a specific story around the time that the photo was taken. I have decided this week to share with you some of my favourite photos from Canada so far for one... Read More
Canadian Cuisine
One of the first conversations that I had with a friend back home after I had first moved to Canada included the sentence, “Do they just drink maple syrup straight off the tree?!” Now, funny as this sentence is, it’s not too uncommon a thought around the world when Canadian cuisine is mentioned. For those who might have a slightly better culinary knowledge, foods such as Poutine, Montreal smoked meat and Nanaimo bars would probably spring... Read More
It’s just a lifestyle.
Hockey. In Canada, hockey is played on ice. Almost every Canadian child will be brought up with the game in what seems to be a lifestyle as opposed to a choice. Each winter ice rinks go up all over cities in parks, backyards and any frozen river. Nets are put in position and skates are brought out of the cupboards to be sharpened once again. Fathers lose their weekends in order to wake up their kids at ungodly hours to drive them to the rinks for... Read More
