Camp 30, Aerial
On my most recent visit to Ontario Canada, I took a friend to the Nazi POW Camp historical site – ‘Camp 30’ in Bowmanville. He happened to bring a quad, […]
On my most recent visit to Ontario Canada, I took a friend to the Nazi POW Camp historical site – ‘Camp 30’ in Bowmanville. He happened to bring a quad, […]
The walk up to Ljubljana Castle is quite steep – if you are taking the original path from the old town. If you have any ‘ability issues’ I would suggest […]
The weather wasn’t all too winter-y, though it was well into the season. A fact which I was grateful for, being that I didn’t pack well enough for cold weather. My spring […]
We jumped on the Train to neighbouring Slovenia. Ljubljana, the town we were heading to, is pronounced (kind of) like ‘Loob-lee-anna’ in English, and ‘Yoob-yanna’ in Slovene. I was not […]
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Mission (formerly and formally known as ‘Mission City’), British Columbia was named after a Mission that landed here in 1861 (functional in 1863). It was named ‘St. Mary’s Mission School’. […]
I packed up my bits and said my goodbyes to Walter who had so kindly housed me in gorgeous downtown Vienna. It was starting to get dark by the time […]
Upon returning back to my Viennese suite, I was surprised to find a message from my host. He owned another apartment (or 3) in the building, that he called home. […]
It was getting dark as I left the Votive Church, but that didn’t mean the city was slowing down. Quite the opposite. As night fell, the festivities heightened. I walked […]
After bundling up, I decided to walk the 2.7 kilometres from my Neubaugasse/Mariahilferstrasse address to the impressive Votivkirche (Votive Church). There is no way to really describe a downtown Vienna […]
There are a number of abandoned homesteads to admire in the area of Iron Bridge. The community embraces them as historical artifacts, worthy of beautiful photography. Two abandoned homes in […]
We were about to enter a small village that would make for a great break between the bad drivers and community degradation. I don’t know how long we had been […]
UPDATE: About 2 weeks after writing this article, Camp 30 was declared a National Historic Site of Canada. Click to view recent aerial footage of the site. Wikipedia says; The Bowmanville […]
Camp X was a Second World War paramilitary and commando training installation located between Oshawa and Whitby Ontario. It was established December 6, 1941. CAMP X Though nothing visible remains of it now, but a park […]
We have finally returned from our EPIC cross Canada tour. This trip was not like any other. It was the first (for me) that included multiple dramatic highway deaths (ones […]
While researching for the past two days, I managed to find a few spectacular things that we plan to do while making our trek across the country. Surely we will […]
For the next four days, I will be preparing for and researching our nearly 5,000 km cross-Canada tour. Well, almost 5 thousand km – if we DON’T sidetrack to look […]
Slocan, developed in the 1890’s mining rush, is only about 1/2 hour from New Denver or 8 1/2 hours east of Vancouver, BC. It sits at the entry to Valhalla Provincial Park. […]
Named after Denver Colorado, New Denver – a village of about 500, was briefly known as Eldorado City. Developed in the 1890’s as a mining town, New Denver did not […]
Sandon is located in the interior of British Columbia in the Selkirk mountain range, in an area known as ‘The Valley of the Ghosts’. It lies an hour from Kaslo, […]
The drive to Kaslo is quite beautiful. Rolling mountains and long, green valleys. There is not much reason to drive up to this area, as Kaslo is not along the […]