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....
Mum’s Gone to Canada – Day 7 – Ottawa again
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...
Mum’s Gone to Canada – Day 6 – Ottawa
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...
Mum’s Gone to Canada – Day 5 – More 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...
Mum’s Gone to Canada – Day 4 – Huntsville
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...
Mum’s Gone to Canada – Day 3 – Niagara
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...
Mum’s Gone to Canada – Day 2 – Toronto’s hotting up
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...
Mum’s Gone to Canada – Day 1 – Toronto
Last summer’s trip to Iceland was amazing: the waterfalls, the stomach-churning whale watching, glacier hiking and snowmobiling. But I put my foot down this year and said that although I enjoyed the fly-drive idea,...