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Trish Burgess

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Lincolnshire, UK
Born in Newcastle upon Tyne. Read geography at Cambridge University. Now living in South Lincolnshire, UK.
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Mum’s Gone to Canada – Day 9 – Les Mis

Trish Burgess Posted on12/11/200929/01/2019 Canada, family road trip in Canada, Quebec 1 Comment
boardwalk in Quebec

      When we arrived in Quebec City yesterday evening, the roads were packed with cars trying to get into the centre and the police were directing traffic to ease the congestion. Yes, yet

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Mum’s Gone to Canada – Day 8 – Hot Dogs

Trish Burgess Posted on12/11/200929/01/2019 Canada, family road trip in Canada, Quebec Leave a Comment

Our longest drive of the whole fortnight, we have 300 miles to travel from Ottawa to Quebec City. The instructions from our travel company suggest the scenic route north of the St Lawrence river. “The

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Mum’s Gone to Canada – Day 7 – Ottawa again

Trish Burgess Posted on12/11/200929/01/2019 Canada, family road trip in Canada, Groundhog Day, Ottawa Leave a Comment

Who’s this little fella?     This morning we try and get up a little earlier to catch the Changing of the Guard ceremony on Parliament Hill. Can’t imagine I’d bust a gut to see

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Mum’s Gone to Canada – Day 6 – Ottawa

Trish Burgess Posted on12/11/200929/01/2019 Canada, family road trip in Canada, Ottawa Leave a Comment
Ottawa in Canada

Shame we have to leave the relaxing part of the holiday behind and set off for our next stop, Ottawa. Quite a long drive but hopefully not too stressful as we’re taking the scenic route

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Mum’s Gone to Canada – Day 5 – More Huntsville

Trish Burgess Posted on12/11/200929/01/2019 Canada, family road trip in Canada, Huntsville 2 Comments
inflatables at Deerhurst resort, Huntsville

You’ll be relieved to know we avoided getting soaked last night as the resort has a little shuttlebus; they picked us up and took us to the main building for some scoff then, as it

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Mum’s Gone to Canada – Day 4 – Huntsville

Trish Burgess Posted on12/11/200929/01/2019 Canada, family road trip in Canada, Huntsville, Satnav problems, Toronto Leave a Comment
Deerhurst resort Huntsville, Canada

As this is a fly-drive holiday, time has now arrived for the driving bit. The company we organised the holiday with have provided us with a big folder full of information. We have to get

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Mum’s Gone to Canada – Day 3 – Niagara

Trish Burgess Posted on12/11/200929/01/2019 Canada, family road trip in Canada, Niagara Falls 2 Comments
Niagara falls

Only a few feet away from Niagara Falls… Up early today as we are going on our one and only bus trip of the holiday; from tomorrow we pick up a hire car and travel

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Mum’s Gone to Canada – Day 2 – Toronto’s hotting up

Trish Burgess Posted on12/11/200929/01/2019 Canada, family road trip in Canada, Toronto 1 Comment
CN Tower Toronto

This morning at breakfast we have a very friendly chap, Arthur, looking after us. This is my first visit to North America so I haven’t experienced the “Have a Nice Day” routine but I have

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