Deja-Vu
More summer drinking and festivals! I’ve now been living in Canada for 16 months and yet still get asked at least once a day, ‘Is that an Aussie accent?’ NO, no its not. Nor is it South African, Irish, Dutch, Kiwi or (my particular favourite) a speech impediment-it’s an English accent. You would think that after 12 months of this I would have tired of it. I’m not going to lie– it did begin to erk me just the teeniest little bit after... Read More
Canada from a Greyhound’s perspective.
Every journey I have taken in the 9 months I’ve been in Canada has blown my mind. Even if it’s the 50th time I’ve made that journey or the one and only, it’s never failed to impress me. Every corner that you go around you’re faced with yet another lake surrounded by evergreens and perfect sparkling glitter of the water. There is my daily bike ride to work which I absolutely love doing every morning. Never has a journey to work been so enjoyable-an... Read More
A Plane, Six Trains…and an Upgrade.
In what was beginning to sound and feel like the 12 days of Christmas, I recently embarked on an epic marathon journey home. It’s funny the extent people go to in order to get home to their loved ones for Christmas-I love Christmas and although nature seemed to have a different idea, I was determined to get home for this Christmas-our first together in our new family home. Booking my travel arrangements back in June-it all looked pretty straight... Read More
Canadian Cottage Culture
I ended my last post halfway though the summer. This will be a continuation of summer, but mainly focusing on the fantastic ‘Canadian Cottage Culture’ that I was lucky enough to experience.While it’s not something I initially think about when visiting a place, and especially as it has been my job all summer, I decided to go on a river cruise in a different town-the 1000 islands, on the St Lawrence River-which was absolutely beautiful. We sailed... Read More
A Quick Escape
A mid-term exam in economics, two term papers, a research paper, and tons of rehearsals for the upcoming spring musical. Three words: stressed, exhausted, and frazzled. Mid-semester break could not have come at a better time, and I was really looking forward to having three days off from the chaotic college lifestyle. Naturally, I decided to do some traveling. The theatre department at my university takes an annual trip to Stratford in Ontario, Canada... Read More
OH CANADA!
Oh Canada indeed! Every year the 1st July is just one more day in the Canadian calendar where everyone can deck themselves out (again!) head to foot in red and white and celebrate being Canadian. “Canada Day” is a national holiday in which Canada celebrates its birthday-when it became its own independent country. I initially didn’t know whether to be slightly offended at how excited and how huge the celebrations were on this day where they... Read More
A Holiday From a Holiday…
So often when you are speaking with friends who are away travelling or when you yourself are in faraway lands you are more than likely to at once hear/think personally, “I’m having the best time ever, but I wish I could just go home for a week to catch up with my friends and family and then come back out travelling.” This is a great luxury many people dream of but sadly one that is rarely a possibility. Due to visa reasons/obligations... Read More
The first few months….
It would seem that around February I seem to get itchy feet and feel the need to get out of England! Every spurt of travelling I have done seems to start at this time of year. I normally choose to head to hot destinations but this time I decided to try out the cold. I know close to nothing about Canada! Sitting back on the plane, I took a moment to consider what I actually did know about it…. …Canadians are very proud people …They... Read More
Border Crossing
It was a weekday morning last beautiful June when we entered into Canada via a rural Alberta check point. All three of us had showered the night before, an unfortunate rarity of the road trip, and all of us were wearing glasses (an important image to save for later on in the story). We were asked to pull the Civic over, present our passports for further inspection, and exit the vehicle. Standing in a line, the boarder cop asked a few harmless... Read More
