Articles Posted in the Must See Category
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Trans-Canada Road Trip – Trials & Tribulations
23 – 26 November 2010 Its over four thousand kilometers from Montreal to Banff via Toronto. An iconic journey through long stretches of nothing which should probably be spread over a couple of weeks, we were aiming to cover the distance in just four days. Roughly eleven hours of driving a day; it was going [...]
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This Blog isn’t PG, its Fucking Hardcore (R18 Viewers Only)
Thoughts & Frustrations on Saturday 24 April 2011 So I was supposed to be getting my blog up to date before I depart on my Great North American road trip with Renee, however I found myself surfing aimlessly through the tangled digital spider web and generally getting very little done. I stumbled across this crawling [...]
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Halifax – New Friends & the Best Open Mic Night Ever!
Mon 08 – Mon 17 November 2010 When I’d asked people in Montreal what I could do in Halifax the universal answer had been to drink beer; not because Halifax is a ‘hole’ but because it has something like 5 – 7 universities located in the city – a big student population so naturally a [...]
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Couch Surfing – Creating a Better Travelling Experience
What occurred next has proved pivotal to my recent travelling experience. With time to plan but a general dissatisfaction with the time I was having in hostels I remembered Jesse from Vegas and his enthusiasm for Couch Surfing. I spent time adding to my profile to try achieve an accurate and representative description of myself [...]
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Grand Canyon & Hoover Dam Tour Flight
16 September 2010 We were both pretty excited in the shuttle on the way to the airstrip; we knew this canyon was going to be big, but how big? Were we going to be blown away by this natural wonder of the world, or would the international hype around the Grand Canyon have already over [...]
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Backpacking Iceland with a Rental Car
19 – 21 August 2010 I’d met an American lad in the place I had slept the previous night so I offered him a lift to the Blue Lagoon, naturally I wanted to show off my recently picked up blue station wagon rental car and share this new exciting freedom with someone else. I was [...]
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Contiki: European Adventurer (18 June – 24 July 2010) COMPLETE!
I like to think we can all now call ourselves adventurers; but let it be the beginning, not the end. Contiki Tour Posts 1. Contiki Adventurer Tour 2. London to Paris 3. Paris to Beaujolais Wine Region 4. Beaujolais to Barcelona (Spain) 5. Barcelona to French Riviera (Nice & Monaco) 6. Verona 7. Venice 8. [...]
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Laterbrunnen (Swiss Alps, Switzerland)
19 – 20 July 2010 Between heaven and earth Having made quick stops at Lichtenstein and Lucerne we made our way through magnificent mountain ranges to the picturesque town of Lauterbrunnen in time for dinner, a quick walk and sleep. For our full day in Switzerland most of us took the optional excursion up the [...]
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Mauthausen Concentration Camp (Austria)
16 July 2010 We visited a concentration camp to experience the dark side of European history, no trip to Europe is complete without such a visit where one can attempt to gain an understanding of the atrocities committed and the hardships people have experienced at the hands of others. Why is it that people are [...]
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Albania (Tirana)
09 July 2010 That morning we departed Preveza at 7.45am, we were heading into the Albanian unknown; into the Eastern Block. To think that it was only as recent as 1991 that Albania started letting foreigners into the country, we were about to fulfil the ‘Adventurer’ part of our European Adventurer Contiki tour. When we [...]
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