I get picked up from my half built hostel by yet another new tour group. I'm pleased to see it's a full bus - yay party times! Everyones really nice and friendly which is reassuring as I'm with these people for about 3 days non stop, plus they witll be my companions on the white water rafting trip- which I'm slightly nervous about... We arrive at our accomodation in Fort Coulonge which is - without a doubt one of the most beautiful locations/ best hostel I've st...

I have yet another new batch of poeple to meet as I join a new tour to ottowa. On the way we go through Algonquin National Park, I've never been to anything like this before, it's like a mini safari. We drive through all sort of freely roaming animals, mostly bison (sounds like a kind of snake but thankfully is a type of deer). Th driver opens the windows and doors so that we can feed the animals with carrots as we creep past them in the bus. I feel like a ten ye...

TORONTO 7-11th July So I arrived in Canada pretty tired after my 10 hours or so of travelling across the ocean (it didn't help that the flight was delayed). I was pretty desperate to find my way to my hostel asap, but the Canadians had other ideas- they weren't so keen on opening the gates to their country. After customs they plucked me out of the crowd and took me aside for a questioning session. I watched as all the other holiday makers strolled through the ...