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To Tour or not to Tour

To Tour or not to Tour

While I am obviously a strong advocate for independent travel, organised group travel certainly has its place. If you are travelling alone, are an inexperienced traveller, or if you just hate the idea of organising a trip and want to do something a little more adventurous than usual then group travel is ideal.
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Posted on Feb 7, 2011 in Canada, Group Travel, North America by 0 Comments

People or Place

People or Place

It’s with good reason that Vancouver is labelled one of the world’s most livable cities. It literally has the best of everything right at your fingertips: Pacific coastline, skiing on Grouse Mountain, hiking in North Vancouver, arts, culture, and Canadians are just so damn nice! It’s very difficult to fault it. Okay, so we all know it rains a lot. A lot. But I love the rain so I stand by my argument. 
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Posted on Nov 4, 2010 in Canada, North America, Vancouver by 0 Comments

First Snow

First Snow

“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.”
 Andrew Wyeth 
 
I saw snow for the first time in 2001 in Vancouver. I awoke one morning to find a much whiter world than the night before and the tiny feathery flakes were still falling. You’d have thought all my Christmases had come at once. I was the total stereotype: I frolicked, I made snow angels, had a snowball fight with my cousin and I’m pretty certain I was giggling the whole time.

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Posted on Oct 29, 2010 in Canada, Cold Places, North America by 0 Comments