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The Making of Our Excellent Eastern Canada Adventure – Part 1
Yes, I know. It’s been almost two months since my last posting. I’d like to say that I was so busy that I just didn’t have the time to get any new articles written but that wasn’t the case. It really was more that I…
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Montreal on My Mind
It’s probably because Barb and I just came back from Paris last week that I have Montreal on my mind right now. While my suitcase sits in my bedroom still only partially unpacked from our recent vacation, I’m already thinking about our next Excellent Adventure…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Paris Adventure – Final
Touristy or not In many of my blog postings, I have thrown around the word touristy here and there. In most cases, the word is used by me in a negative-sounding way describing a place that that you may want to consider not going to.…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Paris Adventure – Part 4
Shopping Mecca You knew that it was just a matter of time before I talked about shopping. For all of the places that Barb and I have been to, we are both of the opinion that Paris has the best shopping in the world. I…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Paris Adventure – Part 3
The first night on any of our trips to Europe is always the toughest. In general we start running out of energy around 6PM but we usually try and stay up as late as we can the first night in the attempt to get our…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Paris Adventure – Part 2
I have to state for the record that I’m quite impressed with the amount of stuff that Barb packed into her suitcase. We had decided to take our small carry-on luggage on this tip as it was only going to be just over a week…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Paris Adventure – Part 1
Paris subway sign as seen on our last visit in 2004 It’s been 8 years since we started using the term Excellent Adventure. It was on our trip to the South Pacific (New Zealand and the Cook Islands) in 1999 that I first began sending…
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Where Shopping Meets Architecture
I think that it’s a given that when anyone is talking about stores to buy food from that the term architecture probably doesn’t come into the conversation. That all has to change. Last weekend Barb and I went to the new location of Bosa Foods…
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The Making of Barb and Baden’s Excellent Paris Adventure
I guess it goes without saying that the secret’s out now. As more and more people were made aware of the details of our next Excellent Adventure, there’s no point in being coy about it anymore. By this time next week, Barb and I will…
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Deep Cove Afternoon
With all of the bad weather that we have been having lately, you have to be prepared to take advantage of every opportunity whenever it present itself. For example, this morning we noticed how the skies had cleared and the sun was shining, we immediately…
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Finding a Little Bit of Italy
Without a doubt, one of our favourite places to go food shopping to find all kinds of specialty food items is an area called Burnaby Heights. Known as The Heights, this area is located along Hastings street in north Burnaby between Boundary and about Willingdon…
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The Art of Blog Photography
As your probably thinking, the above photograph lacks a certain, how shall we say, artistic quality. Welcome to my world of the blog photographer. The above picture was one of the very shots that I came home from our dinner at the Ocean Club. In…
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Excellent Adventure Countdown
I had previously hinted at the fact that Barb and I were in the planning stages of an upcoming vacation. I’m happy to say that we have booked the flights and hotels for that vacation which we will be going on in just a handful…
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Another Year of Articles – My Blog’s 2nd Birthday
It’s hard to believe that I’ve now passed the 2 year mark since I started my blog. Officially on February 1st, it now seems that I have been writing articles for my blog for so long that I can’t remember anymore what it was like…
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ExcellentAdventure.ca overtakes Billandted.org
You may remember that in March of this year I had celebrated the fact that my blog site had moved up in the Google page rankings which is one of the mechanisms on the Internet that loosely indicates the popularity of a web site (see…
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Have an Excellent Christmas
On behalf of all of the staff here at ExcellentAdventure.ca (ok, it’s just me here), I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a new year filled with lots of good food and travel adventures. Baden
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Finding a Little Bit of Germany
Living in Vancouver, we have access to a variety of cultural dining and shopping experiences from many different parts of the world. The majority of the options available to us here are typically Asian and South Asian which isn’t all too surprising given the large…
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The Making of an Excellent Eastern Canada Adventure – Part 1
Now that the cat’s out of the bag on our plans to do an African vacation in 2008, I probably shouldn’t waste any more time in posting the first article for next year’s Adventure. So without beating around the bush, I’ll come out and say…
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The Making of an Excellent African Adventure – Part 1
The point is not lost on me that I have barely made mention of our vacation for 2007 while I at the same time am posting the first “making of” article on an Excellent Adventure for 2008. In reality, it seems to be turning out…
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Coal Harbour Weekend
One of the most difficult articles that I usually have to write is the one right after coming home from vacation. Usually by this time I have posted all of the pictures up on my blog and my life has pretty much returned back to…
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Germany 2006 Pictures
I guess that with the posting of my pictures from my recent trip to Germany that this means that things are now officially done. My Germany 2006 pictures can be found here. Baden
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Tahiti 2006 Pictures
Now that I’m back home from Germany and things are returning to normal again, I’ve got some time to get a choice selection of Barb’s Tahiti pictures up on the blog. You can see the pictures here. Baden
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Baden’s Excellent German Adventure – Final
Berlin Stopover A few months ago when Frank and I were discussing the agenda for this vacation, we hadn’t discussed stopping in Berlin on our way from Hamburg to Dresden. This subject only came up last week as Frank suggested that since our train to…
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Baden’s Excellent German Adventure – Part 4
Flensburg Reunion In my last installment, I was saying that I was on my way to Hamburg where I needed to transfer trains to catch the connecting train to Flensburg in northern Germany where I would be staying the night with Barb’s uncle and aunt…
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Baden’s Excellent German Adventure – Part 3
Meeting old Friends About a month ago, I had made arrangements with our friend Anette to meet her for lunch today as it would likely be the only time that I would have to see her on this trip to Germany. For those of you…
