December 30th, 2007
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Toronto bed and breakfast is a site that reviews the various B&Bs in the Toronto area but in between those you get little snippets of information about the Toronto area and Canada generally for that matter. Naturally, they also run through the hotels in Toronto too.
For me though the most interesting snippet is about Dundonald House which is a large government building in Belfast but a gay B&B in Toronto!
If you’re thinking of going to the Toronto area then Bed and breakfast Toronto gives an interesting selection of information about it that you’d not find elsewhere.
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October 2nd, 2007
We’re sort-of looking for somewhere outside France to live at the moment. Not in a “lets’ go right now” kind of way, but in a considerably more musing about it all sort of way.
Initially, areas of Spain were first into the frame. It’s another European country, so that makes it relatively easy to move to. No real hassles about residence permits or such like things, same electricity supply and we can, once again, stick our Sky box under our arm and watch our normal programming.
However, Norman has suggested that Canada would be a much simpler option than we’d ever thought it would be. In fact, we never even considered it, thinking that it would be a rather difficult place to move to. Even our first playing around with the immigration points calculator throws up that we’re sitting at 80/100 with no problems and that’s well above the required level.
Very early days of course and we’ve not even ordered, still less read, the Living in Canada book.
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April 16th, 2007
It’s been a while since I’ve been on one of the grand-scale holidays that I used to go on quite regularly but the point is coming up when it’ll be time for another one so I’ve started looking round the places that I went to in the past.
Anyway, as part of the pre-trip plans, I’ve started tidying up and updating the outline guides that I used to run up for the big trips and they’ll be starting to appear on the trips section of this site in due course.
The first one is for New England which I spent about four weeks going round way back in mid-September 1996. That’s quite an unusual area for America in that it has quite a bit of history behind it and is quite compact too. So compact in fact that we ended up spending almost three weeks within 150 miles of Boston.
The unexpected highlight of the trip for me was Concord Massachusetts which is where the War of Independence started or, as we would refer to it, the rebellion. Whilst in the rest of America us brits feel very much at home, this is the place where our history books diverged. So, whilst they would say something like “American patriots killed two of the occupying British forces” we would say, using present day terms, “American terrorists murdered two British soldiers”. It’s a very peculiar place to be if you’re British as you feel very much as though you are intruding and shouldn’t be there.
As I say, it’s very historic and filled with a wide assortment of living history museums. You can experience life in the early 1700s in Plimouth Plantation, the 1800s in Old Sturbridge Village and into the 1900s in the mansions of Newport Rhode Island. It’s so compact that you could quite easily base yourself in Boston and see most of the sights as day trips.
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