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Re: 2012 - Travel Canada
Originally Posted by rivingtonpike
(Post 9867762)
Victoria on Vancouver Island is "charming in a European sort of way" according to the tourist blurb. Can't say it really reminds me of any European City I have visited. However, if you live on the Island you make the best of what you have!
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Re: 2012 - Travel Canada
Originally Posted by dbd33
(Post 9864962)
- NS tar ponds, save having to visit Alberta
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Re: 2012 - Travel Canada
Originally Posted by dbd33
(Post 9867772)
I have the idea that visiting Victoria is like stepping into an episode of Heartbeat. Fair?
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Re: 2012 - Travel Canada
Originally Posted by Costello
(Post 9864469)
I'm planning a trip to travel Canada this year - Hopefully leaving the UK around June time and spending no less than 6 months touring from east to west - starting out on the east coast, in French Canada.
I haven't yet nailed down specifics - It's a work-in-progress. This thread is a place for people whom are planning to (or already have) explore(d) Canada... to share ideas, information and adventures. I'm currently waiting on my IEC visa - it's been conditionally approved - now at the final (hopefully) hurdle, so painfully waiting to hear. I invite you all to share :D |
Re: 2012 - Travel Canada
Originally Posted by Former Lancastrian
(Post 9864572)
Sort of like Liverpools title bids :rofl:
Come on you left that one open. |
Re: 2012 - Travel Canada
Originally Posted by dbd33
(Post 9864962)
- Quebec City, the only part of Canada that's charming in a European way
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Re: 2012 - Travel Canada
Originally Posted by MarylandNed
(Post 9867887)
What title bids?
They were even mentioned as one of the 60 clubs that have not played at the new Wembley however they now have the envious task of facing Cardiff. Im predicting a Cardiff win (Bellamy OG 90 mins :lol:). |
Re: 2012 - Travel Canada
Originally Posted by rivingtonpike
(Post 9867801)
Am I right in thinking the longest you can stay in Canada on a visitors visa is 6 months (unless you get a special dispensation)?
Spouses accompanying persons on TWP can get up to 3 years or the duration of the TWP or even a Study Permit. Persons just have to convince the examining officer that this amount of time is necessary and that they have sufficient funds and are not inadmissible for any other reasons. |
Re: 2012 - Travel Canada
Originally Posted by MarylandNed
(Post 9867894)
What about Montréal? 2nd largest French speaking city in the world after Paris. There's a lot of European charm in Montréal. Has to be in the top 5 cities to visit in North America.
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Re: 2012 - Travel Canada
Originally Posted by dollface
(Post 9867922)
Wouldn't say Montreal was loaded with European charm, just the old town and that aint big. Quebec City (old Quebec) far more European like and the only walled city left in North America, well North of Mexico.
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Re: 2012 - Travel Canada
Alberta isn't bad - we have the Calgary Stampede and all the other rodeos going on. Get a taste of cowboy country. Or the Ponoka Stampede (if you want redneck cowboy country).
It's not all about european charm you know. |
Re: 2012 - Travel Canada
Originally Posted by mandymoochops
(Post 9869310)
It's not all about european charm you know.
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Re: 2012 - Travel Canada
Originally Posted by mandymoochops
(Post 9869310)
It's not all about european charm you know.
Time to go home (in the broader sense). |
Re: 2012 - Travel Canada
Originally Posted by Novocastrian
(Post 9869595)
Perhaps not for all. But after living in North America from 1977-1986 and then from 1993- present, I could use another bout of European charm.
Time to go home (in the broader sense). |
Re: 2012 - Travel Canada
Remember that BC has big time Vancouver, with associated expense, but is also the launch pad to Fernie, Nelson, Banff and Jasper - the latter of which you can connect with on a rather nice train ride via Kamloops. If you can drive the icefields parkway, do it with a passenger to avoid swerving off the road staring at a mountain top.
As I recall from the rest of our pre-PR 'where to live' visit, we found Calgary to be a docile grid layout, akin to Milton Keynes with immense oil money. Stampede is worth seeing for a day - tops. Your cowboy hat will itch after 24 hours, and you will never look at a cow in the same way again. Toronto is immense and sprawling - says me, a fully paid up Londoner - but it has a few nice eateries and a museum or two. Ottawa has the museums, governmental feel and couple of good restaurants, but bring a board game to entertain yourself after 8pm unless you want to be a total tourist down by the market area. Loud is the sound of your wallet emptying for dear beer. We eventually plucked for downtown Montreal and find it to be a blend of Chicago, Paris and northern New England. The old town of Quebec is nice, but within an hour or two you can be in wine country, ski-resort land or popping over the border to Vermont for cheaper clothes. Not been out East to the coast but heard the words 'quaint' and 'odd' used by locals here in equal measure. Good luck and enjoy (have totally forgot your question, hope this helps). |
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