Well, following my slightly miserable last journal entry earlier today, things surely had to pick up. . . Well am very pleased to announce that they did. . . . ! So Wednesday the 27th daytime we headed off in search of some cultural aspects of Montreal and some of the sites that had been recommended to us. . . The Port area, old town and the Mount ‘View point’. . . . So, with no real sense of direction we headed towards the port area and ‘Old To...

Hi there. . . . Well we are still in Montreal, not for the want of trying to escape! Now Dave suggested that I shouldn’t paint too much of a bad picture of the place, however I am somewhat struggling to highlight any real positives. . . About the nightlife anyway. . Now in the day it is nice. . . And having the snow is great, a real Christmas feeling. . . However seeing the snow has now annoyed Dave, as we should have really sorted out skiing?! But hey, wh...

Hello from Canada, hope you all had a very Merry Christmas?!! Well what can I say about this place. . . ? Rumour has it, it’s a really busy bustling place, well not on Christmas Eve. . . Not like in the UK. We got here, as I said before a little later than anticipated, so dumped the stuff in the hotel and had a chat with the receptionist to find out which place to hit first. . . . and. . . . . .Doh. . . (So, why did you guys leave NYC to come here?) she sai...

So, the general theme to my stay in New York has been to get over the fact that I have left work and am now unemployed (Yes, I have no Job – Doh) and to just slow down a bit. . . . Well today Friday 22nd (gonna start putting dates in now, as the STA webpage is on UK time, which doesn’t always marry up. . . ). Yes today has been no exception. We headed up town towards Central Park, mainly to go to the Bank at which my new Card was being delivered. . . ...

Hello again. . . . Well following the excitement of booking Christmas in Canada. . . I clearly had to take a day off. . . . Had a great Japanese lunch on Thursday. . . Followed by a bit of a walk around. . .Dave bought some nice battered 2nd hand boots. . . (It’s all the craze over here). They don’t have Oxfam, just second hand shops that cost more than the new ones. . . erm . . . yeah. . . ??! Whatever! Anyway. . . We mozied round for a bit and I had...