Montreal is a really nice city – full of personality, good looking and nice people. Other than being a french speaking city, it feels very much like my home town of Melbourne in Australia. While in Montreal, I had the luxury of staying in my friend’s place in the suburb of St Lambert (across the almighty [...]

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Other than views from the observation window, the tower also has a glass floor. I’m not someone who is afraid of heights but as I stepped into the glass floor, I got a little vertigo, must be the champagne that I sipped at the observation restaurant ;-p. It was really cool to get up with [...]

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I have a whole day today to explore Toronto as part of my Niagara Falls tour. My first impression of the city was “a luke warm coke with no frizz”. The city is full of concrete buildings, a little bit messy without a personality. When a local found out I was from Australia, he straight [...]

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When you visit Niagara Falls, a must thing to do is visit the quaint town of Niagara on the lake town. Niagara on the lake is a historic district.  It has a collection of residential, commercial, ecclesiastical and institutional buildings, many on their original sites close to the street. Here you will find some of [...]

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Niagara Falls, I cannot stop talking about it. There are two falls that share a border between USA (state of New York) and Canada (state of Ontario). There is the American fall (resides in America) and the Horse shoe fall also known as the Canada fall (resides in Canada). These falls are not that high [...]

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At first I wasn’t keen on the idea of paying a small fortune to get on a 10 minute helicopter ride (I’m a student pilot myself) but seeing that I’m here and thinking it would be great for this blog I decided to give it a go. The helicopter fitted 5 people comfortably. Being the [...]

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Niagara falls are magnificent. Words simply cannot describe how amazing these falls are. Pictures do not do justice to the experience of being in the presence of these amazing falls. I spent a whole day and night experiencing how magical Niagara Falls can be. There was so much water, I was inspired by the power [...]

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My friend Christine booked me for a 3 days tour to Niagara Falls from Montreal. I’ve always wanted to visit Niagara Falls so I was very excited. I arrived early to join the local tour operator, didn’t want to risk it to be late. The bus left Montreal in the morning and entour to Toronto and [...]

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I am back in the French speaking part of Canada on a day trip to Quebec City from Montreal. My French Canadian friend (Christine) told me earlier that everyone in Quebec will be speaking French and very little English. Quebec City is the capital of the Quebec Province in which Quebec City and Montreal reside. [...]

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So I am in Canada, a friend had suggested that I go to Ottawa to celebrate Canada Day. Ottawa is the capital city of Canada located in Ontario, the same province of Toronto (Canada biggest city). Ottawa is the central of all Canadian government activities. The centre of the celebrations was on a stage in front of [...]

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