Every year Toronto's largest exhibition centre opens it doors to a huge variety of different shows, but recently I found out about the pinnacle o…

Ancient recipes are sometimes passed down the family line from generations back. Cast your mind back to a time when life was simple, people called a …

The car thundered along the freeway, occasional pits in the road sending my head knocking against the window. I shuffled sideways and gradually my …

I will freely admit there was a brief time during my childhood that I endeavoured to fain the odd illness in an attempt to skip school. I would while…

In summary I left England to go on jaunt across Canada, lost my car keys, got stuck in Nova Scotia, took a wrong turning and ended up in Virginia, we…

Ok, I know I haven't blogged for a while, so I've got a lot of catching up to do. In order to do this I must request that you, the loyal r…

When was the last time you heard a really good band? I’ve been quite lucky in Canada so far. I’ve seen Van Halen and The Killers live in concert …

Ok here is a nice cheery blog entry with fluffy bunnies and kittens to make the sour taste of the last blog entry go away.*Puff* there it goes.I saw …

In my eagerness to find work I have diversified my skills, and broadened my job search. This has lead me to seek gainful employment through a var…

I was invited along by friends K and M to have desert at a local ice cream establishment by the name of Dimitri’s. Little did I know that I had bee…

The local careers centre was having an RCMP recruitment presentation, so I went along to see what it was all about. I joined a bunch of blokes sparse…

The dude who came up with the Regift-O 3000 invited us to his horror themed St Valentines day party. (Beheadings start at 7, please list number o…

Imagine an event whose mere concept is so ingenious it would make Einstein blush, a gathering of like-minded people with one purpose, a party themed …

This morning I braved the elephants (meterologicus giganticus) and monkeys (meterologicus brass-monkeyus) and went foolishly for a cycle ride. I’ve…

On Friday last week I turned the ignition key and the car grumbled into life. It was minus something outrageous outside, and if I had been the car …

The exam went basically as I had predicted, I did remarkably well considering I had only read half the book. I kind of passed ‘on average’ wh…

She waits. That what she does. She waits. And then, just when you think she’s not going to go, she twitches forward for an instant and then returns…

Life in the basement has been warm and dark. I awaken occasionally from my mushroom like state to eat and go outside, returning quickly to the warmth…

Sometimes people drive me nuts. And sometimes I realise it’s me who is driving someone else nuts. After a few days of awkward turtle (place one han…

On Sunday I jumped in the car and drove for 7 hours down to Massachusetts. D had warned me about potential snow and I only got a couple of flurries o…

I awoke to a swollen calf, the slightest touch sending convulsions of pain up my leg. I hobbled out of the bedroom and into the bathroom before anybo…

I don’t normally consider myself as a total prat. I’m usually only an occasional prat. Similar to an occasional table (that is a table that is us…

On Friday evening I dumped the bike back at the apartment, packed a bag and fled to the station to get a train to Exeter.You may recall previous blog…

On Friday evening I cycled home the requisite 6 miles and collapsed on the bed back in the apartment. I don’t know which is harder, a full workin…

Ok, I know its been a while since my last posting, but I had a lot on. My life currently consists of small raisins of amusement spread throughout a t…

On Friday I slept in late and then had a nice long shower, despite D’s attempts to limit my hot water. Nice try D, better luck next time! I cleared…

The next day (thursday) E took me out to breakfast at the Lone wolf. I had ‘where’s the carbs?’ (a plate of scrambled eggs and bacon) and as I …

I awoke on Tuesday morning to a text message from the friend T. The message lead to a phone call and that phone call lead me to the sad news of my gr…

Another early escape got me back on to highway 95 by 9:00am. A couple of hours drive down the road was Richmond and a little further was my Cous…

Early start this morning as I had to get all the way down to Virginia by the evening. After a brief breakfast, thankyous and goodbyes to my find hos…

I took B to the airport yesterday evening. B had kindly arranged for a friend of the family to put me up for a couple of nights. I rang C (the friend…

The next morning I re-entered the lounge. Suited and booted for a full on assault from the Hornets, myself and B approached the nest. B waffed smoke …

I have escaped the wonders of E's house and fled to the relative tranquility of L's house a few miles down the road. Before leaving I was witness to …

My friend E is very obsessive about American history, any opportunity she can find to verbally bash me over being a brit she relishes with delight. T…

We got ourselves together as early as possible and loaded the car. In addition to my usual camping paraphernalia we collected a food processor and a …

The ferry was an hour late leaving Port Aux Basques, Newfoundland but underway we watched Nim's Island and fell asleep in a very cold lounge onboard …

It was early one morning, yesterday as it happens, when I set about making breakfast. we were frequently interrupted by a small brown and cream colou…

After we left Port Aux Basques we headed north along route 1 to Barachois Pond Provincial park and camped by a really cool lake. The lake was overl…

I have been gearing up my bridge building in preparation for a wedding that happened on the 31st August. The evening of the wedding was an interestin…

I've been doing a fair amount of carpentry work these last few weeks. I know its not travel related, but its what I'm doing so I'm going to write it …

Reports of my death are highly exagerated. Apart from being ill with K's lurgy for the past few days I'm still alive and I'm still in Cape Breton. T…

A couple of days ago some woofers turned up. Woofing is a term used to describe many of the rural summer jobs that tourists can pick up (WWOOF - wi…

I forgot to mention on my pleasant bay posting that I saw a bear. I was driving through the mountains on my way to Cheticamp when a brown bear cub,…

Cabot shores is an amazing place, it is a kind of outdoor persuits retreat situated in spill of woodland caught between the river (Indian Brook) an…

I rolled out of the campsite at Louisbourg as early as I could muster, and headed north to Sydney to try and obtain passage to Newfoundland. The gi…

Orwell Historic village was my last full day on PEI, So the following morning I upped sticks from Brudnell Provincial park (a +8 campsite on the An…

It may appear that I’m living the high life, traveling without issue (occasionally) where and when I choose. I must advise you that this is not the…

Having spent a long session in the internet café, I chose an Island attraction on the south coast and drove down to see Orwell Historic Village. &n…

I had a lazy sleep in and then got moving to New London, to the birth place of L.M.Montgomery (The writer of 'Anne of Green Gables', amongst other fa…

I consider myself of above average inteligence. In doing so I join the vast majority of educated people, which has the effect of making the perceived…

On Monday I woke up and thought I’d better get going. I’d spent far too long lazing around the farmhouse in grand desert. I loaded the car, havin…

I had booked a surfing lesson with a local club, and headed off to meet Jules. She would give me my first ever surf instruction, for a hundred bucks …

I bombed off to Halifax the following morning to drop J back to her appartment (a daughter of my kind hosts R and his wife A) but ran out of time to …

After two days on the trot getting sun burnt, I decided to do something indoors. I headed back into Halifax to see Pier 21. This is an old wharf buil…

Ha I made it! Despite locking my keys in the car, losing my bank card and getting eaten almost to death by mosquitoes I can now proudly say I have re…

The next day I got my stuff together (except for my leftover firewood, which I forgot) and headed back to Fundy. Back at Hopewell rocks I walked acro…

Waterborough A friend of a friend back in England gave me a leaflet detailing a campsite about half way between Fredricton and the bay of Fundy, So …

I packed up the tent in Quebec, and headed out. The GPS insisted on taking me the wrong way while I defied it until we agreed. We seem to be falling …

I headed off reluctantly from the cottage and made my way East to Montreal. The weather was terrible and the traffic was worse. My oh so tr…

About half an hour North East of Kingston I found the Cottage. My Uncle has a plot of land on the edge of the lake near Portland, a small village in …

Peterborough was great, But Kingston has got a lot more to offer, sorry Peterborough but its true. I took the 401 along to Kingston’s KOA (it’s a…

I finally got back into the car, and could then set about getting gas for my stove, or a new stove to fit the gas I had already bought. For safety I…

This post is dedicated to my friends C and P, without whom I would not now be writing this blog post. I'd be writing one much much worse. I put the …

Faffing is an art that I have spend the last 28 years of my life perfecting. Its a tricky balance you have to strike between achieving almost nothing…

Its not that cars a particularly elusive, on the contrary I see them everywhere. Its just I have this problem with commitment and they always demand …

It was a week Sunday after I had landed, K had signed us all up for the becel cycle ride: Becel Ride for Heart They close one of the main freeways …

After a gruelling crawl through customs I emerged into the light of the arrivals lounge, to be greeted by the shrill screams of my baby niece (I) and…

After a furious panic stricken exodus from Cambridge, in which I almost forgot my Citizenship card (the one piece of documentation that would get me …

Welcome to my Travel Blog! This blog is going to show you my adventures as I travel from Nova Scotia to Vancouver. But this is just the pre-adventur…