Category: Entertainment
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Vernon Street Art
We had the opportunity to spend a quiet Saturday wandering around the downtown centre of Vernon, British Columbia. No better way of maximizing the enjoyment than to check out the cities vibrant street art scene. It appears that about 20 years ago the city adopted a program of showcasing its heritage and encouraging pedestrian traffic…
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Guy Fawkes Night
I feel I need to put up a quick, short post on a not so little event we managed to take in this weekend. Being from Canada my main knowledge of Guy Fawkes stems from the pop culture movie ‘V for Vendetta’. Fairly safe to say after doing a bit of reading that the movie…
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Drinks in the Clouds
Bearing in mind that the Marina Bay Sands is a 200 metre tall building, we had a grand view of the light show they put on a couple of times every night. Yes it sucks that they charge you to go up, but seriously, highest bar in the world and two quality cocktails for $35.…
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Vanuatu
When you have a couple of weeks of uncommitted time what do you do? We look at a map. With two weeks between our final house sit in Adelaide and our first sit in Melbourne we decided to add another stamp to our passports by visiting the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu. Nestled in the…
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Travel Essentials
As the Christmas season rolls around I can’t help but notice the proliferation of articles on “The perfect gift for…..”. Whether it is the golfer, the outdoorsman, the photographer, or the traveller, it seems everyone has their own idea of what the perfect gift idea is. Don’t worry, I am not going to suggest a…
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Things to see in Siem Reap
On our flight on Silk Air from Singapore to Siem Reap there was a group of young Cambodians that were just returning from the OzAsia Festival in Adelaide, Australia. They were members of a group called Phare, The Cambodian Circus. We only chatted briefly with a couple of them but they came across as very sincere…
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Things to do in Queensland
The last couple of months have been very busy with house sitting and visiting. However, luckily we have some great friends and family here in Queensland who have gone out of their way to share their backyard with us. The last touristy thing we did in the Brisbane area before heading north was to visit…
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Birds and Other Creatures
When it comes to Australia, typically people tend to think of koalas and kangaroos. And though there are koalas and kangaroos to be seen the most overwhelming animals we have noticed have been the birds, everywhere. We affectionately refer to them as the “DB’s” (damn birds) due to the habit, no matter where we are,…
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Life Down Under
Life down under is pretty fantastic I have to admit. Apologies to friends and family in chilly Canada, but the heat beats the heck out of scraping ice from car windows any day. We have been busy visiting local sights, including the Daisy Hill Koala Sanctuary. As well, we have been fortunate enough to take…
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Settling in to San Juan del Sur
In our first week in San Juan del Sur we have had the opportunity to see a couple of sides to life here. We arrived on Friday and the final two games of the World Cup were Saturday and Sunday. Even though Nicaragua did not have a team playing there was no lack of flags,…