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Québec City, Canada: Five Family Favorites
Blog: Family Friendly Hotel, Resort, Suite Reviews: Travel Savvy Mom » blog - 2 October 2009
If you’re jonesing for a taste of Paris but the long flight and even longer credit card bill are holding you back, Québec City is a slice of the continent that embraces your family while taking it easy on your bank account.
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"I don't know where I'm going, but I sure know where I've been"
Blog: Big City Blog - 29 September 2009
Mark Twain - author? Martin Luther King - civil rights champion? Confucius - philosopher? Actually, it's David Coverdale - Whitesnake.And while it may seem odd to kick off a travel blog with a quote from an 80's hair band, it does sum up my mindset at the moment as I head off to a new adventure.
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Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad City?
Blog: Family Friendly Hotel, Resort, Suite Reviews: Travel Savvy Mom » blog - 18 September 2009
I didn't intend to arrive in downtown Vancouver alone with my two-year-old twins.
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Trekking the Athabasca Glacier on our Rocky Mountain Adventure Drive
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 16 September 2009
It was sad to see our Rocky Mountain Adventure end. We really enjoyed ourselves with the gang from General Motors and the other bloggers and writers in the group. But it was our last day driving the Equinox and it was time to head out for our final adventure. We were going to walk on the Athabasca Glacier at the Columbia Ice Fields.
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Canoe Lake Louise in Banff National Park, Alberta
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 14 September 2009
While paddling Dave commented on what an "Authentic Canadian Moment" we were having - Canoeing in the Rocky's on the majestic Lake Louise. He managed to take some great views of the Glacier from a different angle than what others were stuck with being in front of the Chateau Fairmont. Also, looking back towards the hotel was quite beautiful and having the structure in front of the hills and forests gave a great perspective of just how large the land is.
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Climbing In Canmore, Alberta With the Chevy Equinox Adventure Drive
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 13 September 2009
We have always wanted to climb in the Rocky Mountains. Finally, the day had come on the Chevy Equinox Adventure Drive. On Day one, Dave and I drove ourselves in our spiffy 2010 Equinox to Canmore where we met James; our guide from Yamnuska Mountain Adventures. It is the premier climbing school in the Rocky's so we were in very good hands.
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Chevy Equinox Rocky Mountain Adventure – Part 1; An Overview
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 12 September 2009
Alberta is home to simply the most beautiful mountain range we have ever seen on the planet. Driving north from Calgary towards the Rocky Mountain range was breathtaking. We could only come up with one word over and over. Another writer on the drive Chris, used the word Dramatic to describe the drive while we were eating dinner the first night and he was right. Once those rocky mountains appeared we just couldn't get the word "dramatic" out of our heads.
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When Toronto meets Istanbul
Blog: EZGuler - 12 September 2009
Just like a carefully woven, ornate Turkish kilim, Toronto has been blessed with the colourful woolen threads of diversity. People from all over the world collide as they call this zestfully dynamic city of lights their home. In a sense, to know this city, is to know the world. So much of our daily life, our reality and what we love about our city parallel what other people three thousand kilometers away from here love and enjoy about their own cities. In a way, we are experiencing a different version of the same moments.
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Quebec City Baby Travel Guide: Eating
Blog: Have Baby Will Travel - 11 September 2009
We enjoyed our fair share of poutine; we shopped at the market for staples for our room; but we ate in a lot of restaurants. Way more than we’ve done on previous trips… In Quebec City, even the poshest bistro welcomes children, but we didn’t go there. We did manage to avoid fast food, and stuck with [...]
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Zipping over Whistler
Blog: another pin on the map - 2 September 2009
Visiting Whistler village for the first time and going ziplining.
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Drinks Round the World: The Canada Cocktail
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 1 September 2009
It is the first of the month and this tradition is catching on. Started by TheTravelExperta and LifeCruiser Drinks Round the World is a fantastic way for Travel Bloggers to unite and share a cocktail together. Right now we are in Canada, and we want to start our own little tradition at the PlanetD of having a drink that is traditional, unique or popular in the Country that we are happen to be in when the first of the month comes around.
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Ode To A Canadian Appalachian Spring
Blog: Curves and Levels - 20 August 2009
Like me, now that summer is peaking, many others will be escaping the city swelter and seeking out campsites and cottages throughout this captivating region. Even an afternoon's drive through the greenery is change of scenery enough, if that's all the time one has.
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Wildlife Wednesday; The Wolves of Haliburton Forest
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 19 August 2009
About 3 hours north of Toronto way up in Central Ontario is one of our favorite places in the Province. Haliburton forest is a nature lovers dream. A place for hiking, mountain biking and canoeing in the summer and cross country skiing and dog sledding in the winter. But it is the Haliburton Forest Wild Life and Reserve that has kept us coming back.
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Ville de Québec avec un bébé (Québec City With Baby)
Blog: Have Baby Will Travel - 19 August 2009
With every trip we take with our daughter, I get less and less concerned about how she’ll handle the journey, and how to keep her occupied en route. This was trip number 6 for her, and at 3.5-years-old, she’s a great little traveler. Because I was a big chicken (and thankfully I was because that [...]
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Chocolat et Tourtière et Poutine, Oh My!
Blog: Have Baby Will Travel - 10 August 2009
or… What I fed my family in Quebec City (Part 1)… In the grand scheme of international cuisine, the French are up there with their Michelin stars and their Zagat bias… Now Quebec City is a little slice of Paris with plenty of charming cafés and elegant bistros, but when you’re feeding a family (that includes a sometimes fussy [...]
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Atwater Market
Blog: Curves and Levels - 9 August 2009
Finally ripe from Quebec's vast fields, city dwellers can now get the fresh stuff. "Picked this morning," was the promise at this venerable institution next to the Lachine Canal.
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Les FrancoFolies, Saturday Night
Blog: Curves and Levels - 3 August 2009
I was a fish out of water, this new Montrealer from western Canada sampling the celebration of music and language that is Les Francofolies. This is the latest offering in Montreal's summer-long season of festivals, held at the Quartier des Spectacles on Rue Ste.-Catherine.
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Our Favorite Attractions in Niagara Falls
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 31 July 2009
It is the peak of our tourist season here in Ontario, so I thought that I would write a post for anyone visiting Toronto now or in the near future to let them our favorite attractions in Niagara Falls.
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Niagara Falls with Kids
Blog: Family Friendly Hotel, Resort, Suite Reviews: Travel Savvy Mom » blog - 29 July 2009
If you're planning to spend a few days exploring Niagara Falls with your family, you'll be able to see and do everything. On a shorter visit---say half a day---you'll have to pick and choose carefully.
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Oh, Canada
Blog: No Borders - 27 July 2009
Ontario, Canada - This weekend we drove from Detroit to Toronto for a wedding. It's the first time I have been to Toronto in about 15 years, and the first time I have driven over the border in almost a decade.We all know that times have changed since 9/11. But driving to Canada was a bit of a shock for someone who used to drive to Windsor to go drinking on a Saturday night. Nowadays, passports are definitely required and it takes at least a half-hour just to cross the border.
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Freefalling at Niagara Falls; Work Can be Play
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 25 July 2009
This week was no exception. We spent 2 days running around Niagara Falls checking out and promoting some sights.
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Whats for Dinner? – Top 5 Exotic Food Experiences
Blog: Around The World On The Toilet - 25 July 2009
In the spirit of our up and coming Asia trip I decided to take a look at some of the most exotic foods I have come across over the last few years. Some are delicious, some are…not delcious but everything is worth a try right? 5) Caribou, Arctic Canada Probably the most common food source for Inuit [...]
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African Night
Blog: Curves and Levels - 24 July 2009
The Festival International Nuits d'Afrique de Montréal runs from July 14-26 and most of the performances are indoors at various clubs around town. Yesterday was the one outdoor dust-up at Place Émilie-Gamelin.
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Auroras Borealis – Photo Essay
Blog: Around The World On The Toilet - 23 July 2009
As summer zips by us, the days in the north country become shorter and shorter. We have already begun to see the shift in daylight which bring with it a chance to glimpse one of the most beautiful light shows on earth, the Auroa Borealis. These are photos I took last night while being eaten alive [...]
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Twins On Parade
Blog: Curves and Levels - 19 July 2009
As part of Montreal's Just For Laughs Festival yesterday, the Twins Parade marched from Place des Festivals on Ste.-Catherine Street to the Quartier Latin on lower St.-Denis for the 12th consecutive year.
