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Recycling, the possibilities are endless
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 12 June 2009
Had the usual stress of barely leaving myself enough time to get to the station, also as usual (apart from Vegas, but there were mitigating circumstances there!) I just made it. I appear to have lost a 70 tonne white whale. I can’t find Moby Dick. It’s not the end of the world as it’s out [...]
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Mallrats
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 11 June 2009
I’m in the process of watching ‘Usual Suspects’ on the idiot box (it really is over here too, the commercials are unbelievable) but it’s driving me mad. I timed the last duration between ad breaks, 7 mintues 21 seconds. Then the adverts last close to 5 minutes, the film length is nearly doubled. It’s also been [...]
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Nissan main dealer
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 10 June 2009
Each room in this hostel has a continent theme, I say theme but it doesn’t really extend beyond the door having a continent name and then the bunks each having a name related to that particular continent. My room is Africa. The 2 bunks opposite me are ‘Two-Humped Camel’ and ‘Safari’, the 2 at my [...]
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Ta-rah Toronto
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 8 June 2009
I’m just on route to see my Great Aunt via the ‘Go Train’. Will be good to see a McDuff. Next best thing to a Bowen in my book (sorry Del!). I think I’ll have a look about Little Italy later and will do the CN Tower tonight. Other than that I’m all out of ideas [...]
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The Great Canadian Word, Unique Phrases and Words of Canada
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 7 June 2009
I was watching the CBC this morning and a great segment was featured about The Great Canadian Word. It got me thinking about people that come to Canada to travel. They must be pretty confused when we tell them that a “Coffee Crisp costs about a Loonie, pretty good deal eh?”
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Pasta la vista
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 7 June 2009
I decided to get some cans in and just knock about the hostel last night but there is a distinct lack of off licenses about in Toronto and the duff (get it?) directions the miserable girl at reception had given me didn’t help. So I thought sod it and went to see ‘Drag Me To [...]
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Looney Toons
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 6 June 2009
I can see where hits came from for this site if a link was followed (say from my Facebook status or something). So I was curious when I saw a few from the MySpace music page of The 2nd St. Rag Stompers (one of the good bands I saw busking at the festival in Seattle). [...]
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Maple Leaves
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 5 June 2009
I’ve noticed far too many Rangers shirts knocking about in Niagara for it to be a coincidence. So I got speaking to a fella to find out what was going on, 10 miles or so away is the annual Rangers North America supporters club meeting. 1500 of them expected, blimey. I went on the ‘Maid of [...]
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Empire Builder
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 29 May 2009
So I just made the coach by 4 minutes this morning after an intense power walk and some well judged short cuts. Phew. 4 hours on this mudda and then the real fun begins, 2206 miles across 7 states on the Empire Builder line. A fellow from Dublin told me a story the other day [...]
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Deres more ta Ireland, dan dis
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 29 May 2009
Last night was pretty much a repeat of the previous one with Niall and various other Irish people (with the odd Aussie thrown in for good measure). I didn’t go to bed until 6. Ouch. Despite this I’ve had a reasonably productive day and actually managed to see something of Vancouver today. I’ve done a good [...]
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War of The Roses
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 27 May 2009
There is a bar in the hostel serving reasonably priced lager so I indulged with my room mate, Niall from Limerick. Nice chap. There once was a man from Limerick, erm. It can’t be done, just ask John Cooper Clarke. He’s a professional. I’m feeling somewhat tender now though and have basically wasted the day moping about [...]
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A wealth in common
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 26 May 2009
When I arrive in the land of maples and mounties I’ve got a date with some serious shut-eye. I did just get around an hour via a power nap, which I think may qualify as my longest consecutive stretch on one of these long haul Amtrak bad boys. Annoyingly it could have been longer but [...]
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Strange, Funny and Odd Names of Cities in Canada
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 15 May 2009
When I started writing this post, I was going to write about funny cities and towns that I have visited in my travels, but then I realized that they have nothing on Canada.
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Ice flows and Flooded Roads
Blog: Around The World On The Toilet - 6 May 2009
Finally, after a long couple of days spent watching water levels rise around the community I have been able to return home as the threat of flooding has ceased. Sunday evening we received the phone call from our Flood Coordinator saying that the risk of water rising over the dyke behind the town is over. [...]
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Break Up 2009
Blog: Around The World On The Toilet - 2 May 2009
Today, Fort Albany had most of its ice break up and after the water began to rise up over the road, to everyones relief, it began to fall. With our large scale evacuation by the military last year, worst case scenarios were on everyones mind. This winter we received significantly less snow and the ice [...]
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Spring Hunt
Blog: Around The World On The Toilet - 21 April 2009
Finally, I got my first weekend off work in over 5 months and I took full advantage of it. Spring time in Fort Albany is full of excitement as the majority of the community hops on their Ski-Doos to spend their holidays at spring camps to hunt geese. Many families own tiny camps in the [...]
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My Dream Skiing Destination: Whistler/ Blackcomb
Blog: The 4 Season Travel Blog - 11 March 2009
ver since I as a 14 year old kid saw a TV show about the powder in Whistler, Canada, I have been dreaming about this place. I even considered moving to Vancouver for “studying” for my bachelors, just to be close to this mountain paradise.
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Happy Holidays! Skiing In The New Year
Blog: Bec and John in the UK - 1 February 2009
A mere 130 kilometres north of Montréal lies Mont Tremblant, "Eastern North America's Premier Ski Resort" and a destination Johnny had been drooling over ever since landing in gorgeously snow-covered Canada. The Twixmas-New Year period is Mont Tremblant's most popular time, and it had been tricky and expensive to book a couple of nights over the 2008-09 join, so we had very high expectations.The drive up from Montréal was both ridiculously easy and gorgeous, with stunning wood cabins sitting in picture-perfect glades of snow-frosted pine and fir trees:
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Happy Holidays! Keeping It Réal
Blog: Bec and John in the UK - 31 January 2009
After an interminable customs-stop at the Canadian border, we finally rolled into Montréal station - clean, airy, businesslike. A friendly, uniformed porter was helping people with their bags, and was greeting every passenger with a cheery "bienvenue!". It was great to be back in Canada again!Montréal is the capital of the province of Québec - where French is the official first language - so we both had a strange period of adjustment while we got used to the seemingly-implausible Franco-American mixture:
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Happy Holidays! Riding The Rails
Blog: Bec and John in the UK - 24 January 2009
Finally it was time to leave both Brandy and the Big Apple and head back up into Canada again. We'd decided to mix it up a bit and take the train to get there. Johnny had been looking forward to this train journey since Andy had first made him aware of The Adirondack; New York to Montréal in ten hours, undoubtedly passing through stunning forested scenes, frosted with snow.
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Happy Holidays! Niagara Chills
Blog: Bec and John in the UK - 8 January 2009
Seeing as Niagara Falls is a mere 120 kilometres from Toronto, we decided to take one of the many coach tours available from downtown to check out this famous spot. A little bit of research had already uncovered that the Maid Of The Mist (the boat which takes you right up to the foot of the waterfall) does not operate in the winter - but it still looked like a good day out, and had been recommended to us as a "must-do" while in Ontario.
