A Travel Blog by Katie Chavez
Anyone that knows me knows how much I love Vancouver. Trav and I lived here for a short time back in 2009/2010 and I fell head over heels in love with this city. For what I look for in a city, Vancouver is perfect (except for the rain from October to June). Within the Greater […] Read more…
After a very long day travelling we finally arrived back in Quebec to Riviere du Loup, on the eastern side of the St Lawrence river. Unfortunately the bus station was located on the outskirts of town, and 6km from the camping ground we were going to be spending the night in. There are no public […] Read more…
Prince Edward Island is famed for its beautiful beaches, abundant seafood, bucolic farmland, red soil and cliffs and of course: Anne of Green Gables. I never read the books myself but obviously a lot of people did as everywhere you look in PEI there is some reference to Anne. In fact the main reason that […] Read more…
In most cases there seems to be no reason why places in the New World were named after their namesake in the old. I don’t find New York to be anything like York, as far as I know New Zealand is nothing like Zeeland and New South Wales couldn’t be more different than South Wales. […] Read more…
After the 1.5 hour ferry crossing from Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick, we arrived on Grand Manan Island, and we loved the island from the very beginning. Grand Manan Island is truly stunning. Making our way past houses draped in colorful buoys and fields of wildflowers, we arrived at the Hole in the Wall Camping ground, […] Read more…
We were lucky enough to get another rideshare organised to get from Quebec to Fredericton in New Brunswick as the buses in the Maritimes are ridiculously expensive. Our ridesharing hosts didn’t speak much English so it was a quiet but pleasant enough ride. They dropped us just outside of Fredericton and we immediately hitched a ride with a nice […] Read more…
I have been interested in visiting the province of Quebec for a long time, intrigued by what life is like in Canada’s Francophone province. Our first stop was Montreal. We had set up couch surfing with Mat and Marie, a French Canadian couple living in Verdun, a suburb on the outskirts of the city. Montreal […] Read more…
Thanks to the accrual of many air miles, we spent our first two nights in Canada in the Toronto Airport Hilton. It felt impossibly luxurious and we made the most of it, eating stomach busting portions of the buffet breakfast, eating lots of the free fruit from the lobby, swimming in the pool, watching trashy TV […] Read more…