Good Morning from Ottawa, the capital of Canada. We are in another B &B which is lovely, haven't had the breakfast yet so that will be the big test!!! Yesterday we drove from Kingston along the picturesque Thousand Islands-now in the St Lawrence River system- and took a short cruise amongst them definitely millionaires row and a show of speed boats, suntan and blonde hair is obviously very important… I miss out on all counts… We went through a townsh...

It's Friday 24th August and we have just spent 2 delightful days at a place called Kingston on the edge of Lake Ontario and the beginning of the St Lawrence River. It's of historical importance to Canada as it was a strategic position in stopping America overpowering Canada. What we are finding it difficult to believe is that summers can be high 30's (today 29) but in winter the river and lake freezes over and it is used for ice skating and in some areas cars e...

Hi from Niagara Falls, Yesterday was spent transiting from Japan to Vancouver to Toronto. We are getting well versed with different layouts of planes, different time zones, transfers, immigration AND the results of purchasing cheap airfares for internal flights. We had limited time to go through immigration etc and get to our allotted gate to find large numbers of people including us who needed a seat number. After the due departure time we were finally give...