Posts Tagged "travel"
At the airport..
Man I hate it when they confiscate water at the airport – it’s so arbitrary and random. Winds me up every time. Especially when I forget and I have to throw it away, so I buy a bottle on the other side – and it’s identical! Grr – angry just thinking about it.
Which is why I love this cartoon! :-)
Just how empty is Canada?
I recently discovered this map showing which parts of Canada are inhabited. Ecumene means “inhabited earth”. The green parts are the main inhabited parts of Canada, the red parts are small pockets of civilization outside the main areas, and the grey and white areas are completely uninhabited! I think it’s an incredible visualization of nature’s dominance over man in Canadian land use. If you’d like to read more about this, you can read my blog post exploring just how inaccessible much of Canada’s wilderness is.
Canada, land of empty spaces and vast distances
Canada is overwhelmingly big. The distances and emptiness are awesome in the truest sense of the word. I knew this on some level, but it wasn’t until I tried to explore some of it with my family that it began to sink in. Subsequently I did some digging online that gave me an even stronger sense of just how empty it really is. I learnt about many remote places and how hard they are to visit. Eventually I even found an excellent graphic illustrating how most of Canada is uninhabited, which you can find at the bottom of this article.
A week “in Gaspé”
At the start of September, my parents came to visit for a couple of weeks. We decided this was a great opportunity to explore a bit of Canada together, so set aside a week for what would be our biggest trip yet since moving here – exploring the Gaspé peninsula.
Spot what’s wrong with this hotel room?
Yes, that’s right, no bed!
This was what greeted me at the Sheraton Toronto when I was there this week for IDEA09 (You can read my writeups at Bitcurrent) (well ok, there was a fold-down one.. but it was very odd nonetheless!) That’s what you get for booking through Hotwire – you get treated as a second class guest! Guess you get what you pay for. Ah well, it wasn’t so bad in the end. Great views from the 35th floor, as you can see.Read More
Flight safety video with a difference – everyone in it is naked! [SFW]
(Thanks Lara for forwarding this)