Hi everyone!
As you know (due to my lack of posts a few weeks back) I have recently come home from my first solo trip to Canada to visit my family. I wanted to share with you all my experience out there along with what things we did etc. It will be a brief explanation as I don't think you want to read about 3 weeks of the trip in one post with extreme details! Enjoy reading.
As you know (due to my lack of posts a few weeks back) I have recently come home from my first solo trip to Canada to visit my family. I wanted to share with you all my experience out there along with what things we did etc. It will be a brief explanation as I don't think you want to read about 3 weeks of the trip in one post with extreme details! Enjoy reading.
Travel:
You have no idea how worried my mum was about travelling on a plane by myself for the first time! Admittedly, I was nervous too, what if I caught the wrong plane or if I missed my flight? Thoughts like this were running through my mind as I was going through Duty Free in Heathrow. Thankfully, I got on the right plane with no problems (all that worrying for nothing!) I love taking off in a plane and even coming down, but my worst little fear is turbulence when you're over mountains or the sea... worst thing ever! And thats what I had on the flight, so I wasn't fully happy about that! I rarely enjoy watching films on a plane, so I decided to read and sleep mostly. I started and finished Giovanna Fletcher's Billy and Me in that time (very good read.) Besides from the very bland plane food and lots of turbulence, the plane landed into Ottawa very smoothly and I was shocked at how much green I saw flying over most of Canada (so many trees!) Baggage did take a while since 2 flights were coming in as well as ours and I also got pulled into customs... as if I wasn't as nervous already! Don't worry, I wasn't carrying anything harmful (unless you count 2 packets of HobNobs being dangerous...)
Food:
| I didn't think I was going to eat so much once I was out there, but lets put it this way: I sure ate more food than I would in a whole month. But was it worth it? YES! On my first night, my family took me to a restaurant that specialised in their ribs, they were so juicy and delicious and I must've been hungry, I was the first to finish them! I also had a lot of "firsts" with food out there. I got to try a chilli cheese dog, a pie from a pie iron, poutine, frozen yoghurt (definitely recommend raspberry and Oreos) and yes, I had a Tim Hortons. All were so delicious I would eat them at least once a day! Writing this is just making my mouth water! And one final first that I had whilst I was out there was peanut butter and jam (or jelly) sandwiches. How could I never come across this combination before?! It's now my number one snack. | |
Sites/views:
| | I was lucky enough to go and see different sites of Ontario whilst I was out in Canada. My first sightseeing was going around Ottawa city with my cousin and walking around Parliament buildings. It looked like a miniature version of the Houses of Parliament in the UK which was weird for me to see! I also went on a boat cruise called the Island Queen Cruise which went around lots of different island across this gigantic lake, which I thought was the sea at some points! As well as this, I went to a historical reenactment called Saint Marie. It was an old Indian site and it told us the story of when the French came along and tried to show them ways of Christianity and their way of life. I found it very interesting to see all these types of things that would've happened back then! We did a lot of hiking as well and saw some beautiful sites such as Morris Island, Balm and Killbear beach, Moon river and many other gigantic lakes! |
Activities:
| For the first time in my life, I went for a swim in a lake! This may not seem like a huge deal to you but I'm not a strong swimmer and I panic if I can't touch the bottom of the water. But once I was in, I didn't really want to get out! It was cold at first, but once you were in it was so refreshing. Also, we went to a water ski show in Bala. It was amazing! I thought water skiing would be simple, you know quite hard to do much on water... I was wrong! One of the most amazing thing they done was a 12 people pyramid, on water, on skis?! So much skill was in this show it was fantastic! And I went on a canoe trip up the river by the cottage we were staying at! I've never canoed so it didn't come naturally to me, but it was a lot of fun (even if my arm ached afterwards!) | 
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And there you have a it, a brief post about my travels. I love Canada, I want to go out again and see and do even more (if thats possible!) It was an amazing experience to go and travel by myself and I feel like my confidence has boosted from it! Now where to next?
Thank you for reading, see you in the next blog post,
Thank you for reading, see you in the next blog post,
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