Slow Travel and Food and Travel Blog for Trips to Savor
A Walk on the Toronto Waterfront What do you do when you arrive in Toronto exhausted, the sun is shining outside and the blue sky beckons you outside? A stroll along the Toronto Waterfront overlooking the Toronto Islands and Lake Ontario. Between Queens Quay and the Toronto Islands Ferry Station, you can[…]
One of the top hotels in Canada, the Wickaninnish Inn employs sculptors and Native American carvers. They produce almost all of the Indian handicrafts that are on display in the hotel. What these artists create is impressive.
Five tips for a trip to Tofino in the spring Few people plan a trip to Vancouver Island in the spring - unless they want to see the wild storms for which the Pacific Rim, the rugged west coast of the island in Canada's west, is so famous. That was also the reason why we were in [...]
Long Beach Lodge in Tofino On our trip to the west coast of Vancouver Island we discovered a lodge that fulfills all the wishes that one could ask for a stay on the Pacific Rim. The Long Beach Lodge in Tofino. Apart from a sign with the name of the hotel, not much of the Pacific Rim Highway indicates what a [...]
Three Must-See Villages on Prince Edward Island People like to pass them because they are often only mentioned as a sideline in travel guides. The small places that you often come across on the way more by chance than by planning. Often it is they who stay in the memory of a trip. Often they spray [...]
Pictou played an important role in changing the history of the Atlantic provinces in Canada. This is where the first immigrants from Scotland came ashore at the end of the 18th century.
If you visit different churches while walking through Quebec City, you will quickly notice how many different Christian faiths there are in the city.
Well worth the trip: Kingsbrae Gardens in New Brunswick In 2011 the Garden Tourism Conference selected Kingsbrae Gardens in St. Andrews-by-the-Sea among the top five gardens in North America worth visiting. And just a year earlier, Steve Jermanok, travel blogger for the renowned US newspaper Boston Globe, even counted the park among the best of the [...]
The Peggy's Cove lighthouse in Nova Scotia Canada is one of the highlights that the Canadian province on the Atlantic has to offer. Everyone who comes here must have seen the most beautiful lighthouse on Canada's Atlantic coast.
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.
