Category: Canada
Vancouver: You Stole My Heart
After my experience there, I am officially ready to officially change Vancouver’s motto from “By Sea, Land, and Air We Prosper” to “Vancouver: Nicest People, Prettiest Scenery & All Around Great Place.” Because it’s absolutely true. I have never been to a city with nicer people. True story: I was trying, rather unsuccessfully, to hail a…
Foto Friday: O’Canada
Happy Canada Day to all my friends up north! Canada is so many things to so many people. I’m totally enamored with the country that borders America to the north. Canada is…
Vancouver: Granville Island Public Market Tour
The Friday I was in Vancouver for the TBEX conference, the awesome folks at Tourism Vancouver arranged for complimentary tours around the area. Since I’m absolutely obsessed with both food & farmers markets/public markets, I chose Edible British Columbia’s chef-led tour of Granville Public Market. I thought it would be the perfect thing for me…
Canada: Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia
Last August, on our fabulous New England & Canada Royal Caribbean cruise, one of our stops was in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The city surprised us both & ended up being one of our favorite ports. After spending the morning exploring up & down the hilly streets of Halifax, we boarded a charter bus & made…
Titanic
The city of Hallifax, Nova Scotia & the Titanic disaster are linked, probably more closely than many Nova Scotians would like. Trans-Atlantic cable laying boats that were sent to recover bodies of Titanic victims from the North Atlantic. The survivors went to New York City. The dead went to Halifax. 328 bodies were recovered from…
