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Vancouver Street Map (thumb) Vancouver districts emerge as a patchwork of different street-naming conventions: all "streets" downtown, a "street"/"avenue" weave through most of the city, but with exceptional areas like the "street"/"drive" zone of Grandview, the "roads" and "malls" of the university, or the paths cut by Broadway and the Kingsway. Also notice how the [...]

Rocking Whiterock

An artist's pretty awesome welcome sign for this city (painted on a gate to an auto repair shop) (thumb) Whiterock is a little town that lies along the coast of B.C. It is about an hour's drive from Vancouver, and is easy to get to, as it is a rather famous tourist spot. Apart from being abuzz with tourists, it is also covered with rocks (well, isn't that a surprise), though whether they are white or not, I shall leave upto you to [...]

Acadians and the Evangeline Trail

Sainte Marie Interior (thumb) From Yarmouth where the Lighthouse trails stops, although many other lighthouses will be visited the next days, I started the Evangeline Trail. Some background info: The history of Grand Pré is full of of courage bravery and sorrow.  The lives of the Acadians were filled with culture, a strong sense of [...]

The best is yet to come

Sherbrooke Village (thumb) And yes it did ... After I embarked the Ferry in New Glasgow I went down to Sherbrooke (Nova Scotia). Sherbrooke Village is an open air museum where people actually work and live like they did in the beginning of the 19th Century. Again I was almost alone in the complete park, some more action is [...]

Journey to Newfoundland

 (thumb) Newfoundland:Lost and Found well.... if u love traveling, don't miss one of the most beautiful islands in Canada- what else!

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