Bonjour from the most bilingual city in the world. When I get home I'm going to be devastated that no body in the shops is greeting me in two languages waiting for me to pick one to conduct the conversation in! Usually my response is "bonjour, how are you", because it shows deference to the fact that I'm in a French speaking province, but also shows that if you try and talk to me in French I will have NFI. Sometimes I just say bonjour in the hope that t...

Iv'e finally mastered the fine American art of walking onto a road without almost being cleaned up by a car. The whole vehicles on the other side of the road thing was throwing me off my game. It's been one near death experience after the other since I got here, but not anymore. For I am the road master. For what Ottawa lacks in any type of skyline it makes up for with impressive architectural landmarks. Gone are the obnoxious condominiums and everpresent skyscr...

I left Edmonton on the Wednesday night and spent until Saturday morning on a train that kept breaking down because the mechanical stuff kept freezing in the weather. FML FML FML. Further to my train diabtribe, I made the mistake of being friendly to an older guy in the Edmonton train station. For the duration of the trip he could not work out why I wasn't eating on the train (I bought my own vegetarian approved food) and kept talking to me while I was (quite obvi...

I left Edmonton on the Wednesday night and spent until Saturday morning on a train that kept breaking down because the mechanical stuff kept freezing in the weather. FML FML FML. Further to my train diabtribe, I made the mistake of being friendly to an older guy in the Edmonton train station. For the duration of the trip he could not work out why I wasn't eating on the train (I bought my own vegetarian approved food) and kept talking to me while I was (quite obvi...

When the cab driver dropped me off at the hostel last night he was wondering why I was traveling alone and he asked me "are you scared of Canada?". Well today I was on a bus that stopped specifically so a car that was trying to get out of the hospital could exit. He did this with no lights, no giveway signs and no stop signs. So to answer his question, I don't think I've ever been less scared of anything than I am of Canada! This will just be a quick ...