Tag: British Columbia
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Back to the First World-Global Fieldtrip Night
Read more: Back to the First World-Global Fieldtrip NightALOHA! It is so much fun reliving our trip every month with pictures and food. Our next destination… North America! Please fasten your seat belts and get ready to go to various places in Canada and the United States. Now, from Australia to North America is a long flight, I have a little game to…
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Tasty Nanaimo
Read more: Tasty NanaimoOver the course of our trip, whenever anyone asks us about Canadian food, we are always at a bit of a loss on what really constitutes Canadian food? Sushi pizza? We are a country of immigrants that eat fusion so often we have no idea where it actually came from! So at the beginning of…
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Go West!
Read more: Go West!We really enjoyed our housesitting in Victoria – it’s a beautiful city with lots of opportunities to hike and bike and enjoy the nature everywhere. We decided we needed to explore more of Vancouver Island so we followed a very popular route which took us to Chemainus>>Coombs>>Cathedral Grove and finally – the most Western part…
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Emily Carr
Read more: Emily Carr“Dear trees, we don’t stop half enough to love and admire them.” This is a quote by Canadian artist Emily Carr. We learned about her while in Victoria and had the chance to see many of her works of art. Emily Carr was born December 13, 1871 in Victoria, British Columbia. She lived in a…
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Vivacious Victoria!
Read more: Vivacious Victoria!We loved our time on British Columbia’s mainland, but more adventures awaited us as we headed to Vancouver Island and BC’s capital city of Victoria. We had rented a car while in Vancouver and now we had a challenge – how do we drive our car across the water? Our vehicle was not amphibious (though…