Arrived at Ottawa after a five and a half greyhound journey from Toronto. Didn't know what to expect of Ottawa as, even though it's the capital, I hadn't heard much about it, so I guess I was expecting a huge built up city. When we'd arrived at the bus terminal I thought we'd arrived at just another small stop off, so was quite shocked to know it was Ottawa! When we arrived at the hostel the building was pretty amazing and it really stood out from its surroundi...

Visited the shoe museum today. We had a buy one get free entry ticket, which came in handy! We again handed our money over to then be told that one floor was closed! I don't think we've been to a museum yet where it's been fully opened to view! The museum held a few famous stars shoes, including Elvis Presley, Marylin monroe, Madonna and John Lennons'. These were probably the highlight of the museum! The rest of the museum held native Canadian shoes amoung other...

Watched Laura graduate this morning (10:30am Toronto time and 2:30pm Southampton time) Didn't expect the live stream to work on the hostel computer but it did!! Was such a proud moment and I'm so pleased I got to see it live! I was nervous for her! I managed to get a message to her through Nicola to look at the camera behind the Chancellor and she did better than that, she waved to me! I got pretty emotional! So extremely proud of both Laura and Nicola and so ...

Went to the CN tower today in Toronto. As we approached the building I was stunned at just how big the building is! It claims to be the tallest building in the world - I don't know how true that is as it was built a while ago now. It was pretty expensive to enter and I don't think it was worth the money, but it was an attraction that had to be done! There were two viewing levels and we paid for both. The lifts going to the first level shot up the tower at 15mph a...

We were picked up by a mini van at 08:40 this morning to go on a day tour to Niagara Falls. The driver seemed to be a lovely guy and found out later that he used to live in the UK for a while, in St.Albans! After an hour of driving around Toronto city picking up the rest of the passengers at their hostels and hotels, we set off on the hour and a half journey to the falls. As we pulled up along the main road, I was amazed to see (what I didn't know at the time) ...