Slow Travel and Food and Travel Blog for Trips to Savor
In a region south of Montreal, the vineyards get bigger and bigger until the vines stretch to the horizon. We'll stop at a spot where the Best Quebec Wineries are concentrated in the Eastern Townships. Here you can find out what we discovered there.
Quebec's Manoir Hovey is tucked away from the road in a forest on the shores of Lake Massawippi. The hotel is located in the middle of nature outside the village of North Hatley. Let yourself be carried away into the world of Louise Penny in The Village in the Red Forests.
The best cider on Vancouver Island comes from the Heritage apples that Sea Cider uses to make its wine. You can test this at a cider tasting at the Sea Cider Farm in Saanichton north of Victoria. Let yourself be surprised by the apple wines from Vancouver Island.
Poutine is the Quebec specialty. The dish has cult status in the French-speaking part of Canada and is almost something of a national dish for Quebecers. Here you can find out more about it and where you can get good poutine.
What makes American ski resorts so special? We ask travel blogger Christian Jannasch: The Alps have not seen me since I was there for the first time and I kept coming back to the Rockies. So far, 5 ski trips have been booked - Alberta, British Columbia, Colorado, Utah and California.
I have often been asked what was the most impressive experience for me that I associate with Canada. Well, there is a lot that I have experienced in the more than thirty years that I have traveled the vastness of Canada. One thing is for sure the enormous size of the country, for which one human life is not enough to [...]
Transatlantic flights - views of Iceland and the east coast of Canada Admittedly, transatlantic flights do not always offer such beautiful views as our flight to Toronto at the end of January 2015. We were on our way to Winterlude in Ottawa and wanted to experience winter in Canada. We had heard a lot about how cold it should be there and [...]
We showed a photo trip from the west to the east coast on our social media. Below the photos are beaches in California. We present scenes of whale watching in the Inside Passage off Alaska and British Columbia. There is a three-master on the coast of Nova Scotia, but also a lighthouse on the Bay of Casco near Portland in Maine.
What is a traditional Christmas dinner in Canada? Traditional Christmas dinner in Canada is turkey. It is usually filled with bread and served with gravy. There is also cranberry sauce and root vegetables such as carrots, celery and pumpkin. The whole family gathers at a meal like this. In Canada it often happens that the family members [...]
dr Andrea McCrady has been the Official Chimes of the Dominion of Canada since 2008 and plays a new musical program each weekday on the Chimes in Ottawa's Peace Tower, which she arranges and compiles herself. We visited her in Ottawa.
