Author: Katina
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Go West!
Read more: Go West!We really enjoyed our housesitting in Victoria – it’s a beautiful city with lots of opportunities to hike and bike and enjoy the nature everywhere. We decided we needed to explore more of Vancouver Island so we followed a very popular route which took us to Chemainus>>Coombs>>Cathedral Grove and finally – the most Western part…
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West Coast Awesomeness!
Read more: West Coast Awesomeness!We love the West Coast and really enjoyed visiting all of the great tourist sites…but nothing is better than staying with locals who are also very dear friends. About 20 years ago, I went to the University of Ottawa with one of my highschool friends Jenn Holley. While living in Thompson residence, she met another Torontonian,…
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Cities of the Midnight Sun
Read more: Cities of the Midnight SunThere are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold; The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, But the queerest they ever did see Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge I cremated…
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Happy Birthday Canada!
Read more: Happy Birthday Canada!We feel so lucky to be able to celebrate our nation’s birthday today! We are in the Western-most capital city of the country – Victoria – and they certainly put on a great party! We have now been travelling for the year….and although there are many beautiful and fabulous countries to visit….there is no place like…
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Tora Tora Tora!
Read more: Tora Tora Tora!**Please note….our niece Anastasia flew out to meet us in Hawaii for a week and she agreed to be a guest blogger and wrote this great piece on Pearl Harbour! I had the amazing opportunity to visit my family out in Oahu, Hawaii, and it was one of the best trips of my life! I…