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1.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From Ottawa - Skating On The Rideau Canal - Officially The World's Largest Skating Rink There is no denying it: Ottawa is known is one of the coldest capitals in the world (only as far as temperatures are concerned though). But does that mean you stay at home during the winter and mope? Absolutely not! Ottawa has turned a potential liability into a key asset and really shows us how to celebrate winter.First there is Winterlude, Ottawa’s winter festival, which is being held this year from February 3 to 19, 2006. Winterlude is apparently attended by more than ...
2.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From Cuba - Part 1 - First Impressions Tuesday, April 5, 2005, 6:00 pm, Hotel Havana LibreThanks to a severe case of the Revenge of Montezuma (or Ricky Ricardo?..,) I am sitting here in the Hotel Havana Libre and I finally get around to create updates from my first 4.5 days here in Cuba. The Internet connection is definitely the slowest I have ever seen in my entire life, (15 minutes to access my messages at Yahoo..), but I am giving it a shot anyways.Friday morning I arrived at the airport in Toronto at 5...
3.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From Chicago - Part 3 - Multiple Austrian Connections Chicago, Screenz Internet Cafe, Saturday, October 21, 2005, 10:25 amSo the two of us expatriate Austrians are staying at the Arlington House Hostel, in itself an exciting experience, to be immersed in this environment of young (and older) travellers from all over the world.We got going early again this morning, at about 7 am. In the shower room Linda and I were talking and joking to each other in our Austrian dialect, all of a sudden a woman in her mid to late forties...
4.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From Austria: Arrival And First Impressions (I) Many of you will know that I am originally from Austria, but that I have been living in Toronto for more than 20 years. I left Austria early on, by myself, at the young age of 20 and found a permanent home in Canada’s largest, most multicultural city. I always realized that I originally came from a beautiful country, but somehow the big wide world was calling me and settling in Canada’s most cosmopolitan urban centre has been a great decision.In the early years I used to ...
5.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From Orlando - A Walk Through St. Augustine - The Oldest Continuously Inhabited City In The United States On our way home from Orlando, a little more than an hour into our 20+ hour road trip back to Toronto, we stopped in St. Augustine, the nation's oldest city, just north of Jacksonville - indeed the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the United States, having been founded by the Spanish in 1565.St. Augustin's founder, Don Pedro Menendez, came ashore on September 8, 1565, and chose to name the settlement after the patron saint whose feast day coincided wit...
6.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From Ontario - A Southern Ontario Tour: Creemore, Collingwood And Orillia Late spring is the perfect time for a driving tour, so yesterday my co-workers Vanessa, Khurram and I set off to check out the countryside around Toronto. Neither one of my co-explorers has lived in Canada for very long, so they haven’t really had a chance to discover areas outside the Big Smoke. So this was their first opportunity to venture forth into the hinterland that surrounds our big city.After leaving the 16-lane frenzy of Highway 401 and a brief ride on the 410 w...
7.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From Graz November 2, 2004, Internet Cafe Sit´n Surf, Graz, Austria, 2:05 pmI finally found Internet access here in Graz. Not the easiest thing I have to admit. Had to ask 3 people and finally went to the tourist info who competently directed me to an Internet Cafe.The last few days have been interesting. The first day my sister-in-law and I took a little tour through my home town of Weiz, and in the 8 years that I haven't been here there has been a lot of change. New buildings...
8.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From Ottawa: My Packed Itinerary For My 2-day Getaway To Canada's Capital For a while my friend Theresa and I had been planning to go back to Ottawa and experience Winterlude, Ottawa's winter festival. About three years ago we went to Ottawa, only to be rained out . Our main activity had fallen through: skating on the Rideau Canal, and even the ice sculptures had melted.But that didn't deter us. So this past Friday we got in the car and after a pleasant 4.5 hour drive we arrived in Ottawa. After documenting my first impressions, we checked in...
9.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From Ottawa - First Impressions And An Overview My partner in crime Theresa and I went to Ottawa 3 or 4 years ago in the winter to catch Ottawa's famous winter festival Winterlude. Unfortunately that year the weather was too warm and the weekend was a total wash-out. Even the ice sculptures had melted.Well, it was time to give it a second shot. So this past Friday we got in the car and once we drove through a few snow squalls past Oshawa it was smooth sailing all the way to Canada's capital. We got into town right ar...
10.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From Ottawa: The Wakefield Mill Inn & Spa To experience the charms of the quaint village of Wakefield, I combined my unique transportation experience on the Hull-Chelsea Wakefield Steam Train with a lunch experience at the historic Wakefield Mill Inn and Spa. Ali, the Mill’s maitre d’, came to pick up a number of passengers from the steam train, all of whomwere going to spend an entire weekend in this famous country retreat. I on the other hand had barely an hour and a half to acquaint myself with one of the most his...
11.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From Ottawa - Confederation Park Celebrates Winterlude Confederation Park is one of the main centres of Ottawa's Winterlude Festival, and what was excellent for us was that we were staying right across the street at the Lord Elgin Hotel. So all we had to do was literally cross the street and we were right in the heart of the action.Winterlude is Ottawa's winter festival, organized by the National Capital Commission. It brings together exciting events and activities for the whole family and most of the activities are free of c...
12.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From Ottawa - A Brisk Morning Walk To Parliament Hill One of the interesting features of Ottawa is its architecture and Ottawa has many heritage sites. Parliament Hill with its historical neo-Gothic buildings was an area I wanted to discover in more detail.Friday night, just after we arrived in town I was able to snap a few pictures, just before the sun went down. Saturday morning I got up and out by 7:30 am and it was a crisp morning, with perfect blue sky. It was definitely on the cold side, not a good idea to venture out ...
13.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From Toronto – Free Music, Great Food And Street Life At Toronto’s Taste Of Little Italy Festival season is in full swing. Summer is a great time to be in Toronto since there are multiple events going on at the same time. I had just heard about the “Taste of Little Italy” street festival and decided to partake of a little free-admission Italo-style celebration.When I got there yesterday at about noon the restaurants and bands were still setting up. Streets were closed all the way from Euclid to Shaw and everyone was working feverishly to prepare for the 3rd a...
14.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From The Canadian Rockies: Our First Excursion To Calgary, Banff And Lake Louise My husband and I try to go skiing for a week at least once a year and so far we've been to about 15 different ski resorts on the east coast, anywhere from Ontario to Quebec, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine. But we had never been out west in the Rockies. Well, it was time to change that.....So we planned a trip to the Canadian Rockies, and for both of us it was the first time for us to see this majestic mountain range. Just after we landed on March 4, 2006 we started off ...
15.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From Montreal: The Old Montreal Ghost Walking Tour After an enjoyable dinner at Modavie I was ready to head to my next scheduled activity: a ghost tour of Old Montreal. Old Montreal Ghosts or Les Fantomes de Vieux Montreal was founded about 8 years ago by a local Montrealer, Eric Poulin, who got the idea for a ghost tour on one of his travels to London. Recently he has started to collaborate with Louise Hébert, owner of Guidatour and a very experienced tourism entrepreneur who has won numerous prizes from Quebec Tourism and i...
16.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From Chicago - Part 4 - A Personal Tour Of The Chicago Cultural Center Chicago, Arlington House, Sunday, October 23, 2005, 6:15 amYesterday, after our lovely Austrian breakfast we went downtown to the Chicago Cultural Center, the main downtown information hub for tourists, to ask some questions about the Pullman Historic District, a planned industrial community, built in the 1880s by industrial magnate George Pullman, creator of the famous Pullman sleeper cars. We figured this would be an interesting place to visit since it brings together a...
17.	Bookmarks: 12	Hello From Montreal - A Delicious Outside Lunch At The Café Du Chateau Well, as much as the walking tour through Old Montreal nourished my senses and architectural sensibilities, my stomach was in dire need of nutrition and I was debating whether I should plunk myself down at one of the enticing terrace cafés on Place Jacques Cartier. Then I literally stumbled over this beautiful small park, Place De La Dauversière off to the side of the main square.
18.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From Nova Scotia: The Lighthouse Trail From Shelburne To Lunenburg This morning I had left Yarmouth, and after a minor accident with my rental vehicle, I had explored the Lighthouse Trail and made a stop in the historic Loyalist town of Shelburne. By about 4 pm I still had quite a drive left to Lunenburg, and I wanted to make sure I would get into town before 6:30 so I would still have some daylight left for my first impressions of this UNESCO World Heritage Site.From Shelburne I went straight east on Highway 103. Had I had more time I w...
19.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From Nova Scotia: Putting My Car In The Ditch In Chebogue River So after my visit to the Yarmouth County Museum I said goodbye to this fishing town on the southwestern tip of Nova Scotia and set off on my trip along the Lighthouse Trail. It was an overcast and drizzly early afternoon when I began my trip along the curvy roads heading east from Yarmouth. A flat landscape with marshy areas and occasional rocks and forest was stretched out in front of me. The odd farm house or small village brightened up the drive.Barely out of town I sa...
20.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From Cuba - Part 3 - Hiking Vinales And Exploring Nature Hotel Havana Libre, Tuesday, April 5, 2005, 6:54 pmOn Sunday it was gorgeous. The cold front had finally passed through, the rain was gone and we had a beautiful warm sunny day without any humidity.My hostess is also a guide for the National Park System and Vinales is a nationally protected natural habitat. She had a tour planned through a side valley of Vinales (Valle del Ancon) with 3 participants, an older couple from Germany and me.The tour was fabulous, we go...
21.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From Ottawa: The Historic Auberge Mcgee Inn (Part II) I enquired about how the transition phase went and Judy and Sarah said that it was pretty easy and seemed very natural. They had all read a lot of books on how to run a bed and breakfast and their previous work experience in different fields came in handy. They also did some first hand research and went to Kingston to stay in different B&Bs. Judy said that the key deciding factor is whether you like people or you don’t. She adds that they had always been comfortable hosting g...
22.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From Ottawa: Fatal Attraction At The Canadian Museum Of Nature My day at the McGee’s Inn started early with a breakfast at 7:30 am. I plunked myself down at one of the two-seater tables in the large bay window which gave me a nice view out onto Daly Street. A women from Montreal, Claudine, here in Ottawa on a business trip sat down to the left of me and a nice couple from Syracuse, New York, chose the table to my right.What’s always nice about bed and breakfasts is that people actually talk to one another and soon the four of us were...
23.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From Nova Scotia – The Garrison House Bed And Breakfast In Annapolis Royal After last night's entertaining and informative Candlelight Graveyard Tour I had a wonderful night of sleep at the Garrison House. In the morning before breakfast I was already able to log onto the wireless network to check all my messages, conveniences that a writer on the road always enjoys. At 7:30 I was ready for a hearty breakfast and I went downstairs into one of the dining rooms. I requested one of the friendly waitresses to put me in touch with the owner because I alw...
24.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From Nova Scotia: Exploring Annapolis Royal Still thinking about what I learned about the fate of the Acadians after my visit to the Grand Pré National Historic Site, I got into the car and started driving westwards through the fertile Annapolis Valley, an area referred to as the “Breadbasket of Nova Scotia”. The gentle North and South Mountain Ranges enclose this agricultural land of orchards and vineyards. The Bay of Fundy is located just on the other side of the northern range. A pleasant drive took me along the Eva...
25.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From Nova Scotia: Dining At The Garrison House Restaurant My visit to the Port-Royal Habitation had given me great insight into the life and hardships of the early French settlers. It had been a full day so far, from my early morning explorations at the Grand Pré National Historic Site, my drive through the Annapolis Valley, my walking tour through Annapolis Royal including a quick visit to Fort Anne and the Historic Gardens - I had already seen a lot and worked up quite an appetite along the way.So in the late afternoon I arriv...
26.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From Austria: A Country Drive And How Determination And Willpower Can Move Mountains (I) Finally, after the rather rainy day yesterday I opened my curtains to an absolutely gorgeous day today. The lush green Alpine foothills and mountains surrounding Weiz were competing with the brilliant blue sky to catch my attention and naturally I had to get out on the road and explore. I started with a visit to the large pilgrimage church in my home town of Weiz. It is assumed that a church, more specifically a Roman basilica, was located on the hill above Weiz already aroun...
27.	Bookmarks: 0	Exploring Ontario In The Winter - Hello From Barrie Our winter getaway over the last two days was supposed to include a couple of different activities: snow-tubing and outdoor skating. Well, our outdoor skating fell through, due to the extraordinarily warm conditions, however, we had a beautiful day yesterday on Kempenfelt Bay in Barrie, where we enjoyed some great outdoor time on frozen Lake Simcoe.Today, after our delicious filling breakfast at Nicholyn Farms Bed and Breakfast, we headed off for another adventure: snowtu...