Passport and Compass

This past week, my friends are I were planning on spending three nights in Murphys Point Provincial Park. Unfortunately, we only managed...

This past week I went on my twelfth Algonquin canoe trip! But even though it was my twelfth, it was the first in a few different ways —...

A few weeks ago, for the first time ever, I went camping with just some friends! I have been camping with all of these people before, of...

Just about two weeks ago I went on a week-long trip to British Columbia to attend a horse archery clinic. Which I suppose warrants a bit...

This post was written by a friend of mine, Emma Kent. Emma is an artist and historian, with particular interests in local Otawa history,...

I went on my eleventh canoe trip in Algonquin Park this weekend. It was a short trip with the kids from the leadership program at Camp...

We made it home late on Friday, after the longest day ever! The first thing we did was eat a bunch of caesar salad! (We were warned not...

Ok, it was actually two days, but to us it has felt like one. Yesterday we woke up in Trivandrum and drove to visit a pretty cool palace...

We started off the day by going to a beach, unfortunately the water was too rough to swim, but we waded and got to splash around a bit....

We spent most of the day travelling to Trivandrum, which is where we are staying for the next few days until we fly back to Delhi. This...

Today was a rest day. We mostly stayed in the house we're staying at, but we did go for a walk once the sun came out! We figured out what...

Today was the wedding! The bridesmaids had to get up super early, at 4am. We needed help putting on our sarees (they are complicated!) as...

Today we had a special meal at Priya's grandmother's house for a festival called Onam. The festival started off as a Hindu celebration...

It's been two days since we last had internet. So, as promised, I took some pictures of the resort yesterday morning. It was raining, but...

Today we spent a lot of time shopping for the wedding, getting clothing, jewellery and shoes. Pretty much our whole day was shopping!...

We drove back to Alleppey today for the engagement party. We stopped along the way to visit a temple that was built up around the house...

Well, we found the rain and the jungle! We spent the day driving to Varkala. We made a stop along the way at the Padmanabhaswamy Temple,...

Just a quick update today. Yesterday we were very sad to say goodbye to our driver Harpreet. He drove us to Delhi and we got on a plane...

Today was a long day! We started off by making a quick stop at the Wind Palace (Hawa Mahal), which was just a facade set up so that the...

We started bright and early today and went to visit the Taj Mahal! It was built by Mughal Emperor Shahjahan in 1630 as a tomb for his...

Flying to India was very different compared to my previous trips to Europe. We left Ottawa on Sunday, and three flights later arrived in...

I forgot to write my usual conclusion post about being safe and sound at home,so here it is! After Paris, we made our way back to London...

Technically we're back in London, but I'm going to do a quick post about our two nights in Paris. So on the first night, we went to the...

I'm getting my post done a little early today. We spent the day in Switzerland (this is the first time we've slept in the same place two...

We spent so much of today on the bus! There was a ton of traffic. At the very least, there were some spectacular views along the way, and...

We left Austria really early so we could have the afternoon/evening in Venice. We ended up arriving at our campsite at around three, and...

Our afternoon in Austria was pretty awesome, because we went paragliding! But first, we drove through Austria admiring the mountains....

I don't know what the internet will be like tonight, so I'm doing a quick update with my phone. Yesterday afternoon we arrived in Munich....

Tonight we're staying in a beautiful little town along the Rhine River in Germany. We're not here for long, just the night and leaving...

So we woke up really early yesterday in order to get on the bus and drive to Amsterdam. We took the ferry across the channel and spent...