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Baden’s Excellent German Adventure – Part 2
Touching down in Germany My flight to Frankfurt was non-eventful but I couldn’t help but think that a long 10 hour flight like that would have been made much easier if I had someone to talk to – like Barb. I lucked out and was…
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Baden’s Excellent German Adventure – Part 1
Defining Online in New Terms I think that this definitely must be a first for the postings that I write to my blog. The idea of me composing this while I am on the plane is nothing new as I usually do a lot of…
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As Quoted in National Geographic
While my blog has been quoted from other web sites before, I’ve got to say that I was genuinely surprised to see my series on our Excellent Quebec Adventure quoted on the National Geographic Traveller web site. Quoted in the October online edition of the…
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One Trip Ends, One Soon Begins
It’s quite the weird feeling. Under normal circumstances, around now Barb and I would have been going on a vacation and returning at the same time. As regular readers know, Barb recently went on her own Excellent Tahiti Adventure and just returned home yesterday (I’ll…
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Barb’s Excellent Tahiti Adventure – Part 4
It looks like Barb’s gotten past the issue of $20/ hr Internet access as I received this recent update last night. However I’m cringing at what the bill will be for all of the disposable cameras that Barb’s had to buy due to the malfunctioning…
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Barb’s Excellent Tahiti Adventure – Part 3
I received Barb’s second update from her Tahiti Adventure. Sounds like things are going well but bad news about the camera. Baden We’ve now moved on to Moorea and are staying at the Intercontinental Moorea hotel. We have a nice room right over the water…
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One Year Late – Our Italy DVD Online
While it has been almost a year since we went to Italy and over 8 months since getting the DVD from that trip completed, you’d think that I’d have other things on my mind like my upcoming trip to Germany in less than two weeks…
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Barb’s Excellent Tahiti Adventure – Part 2
I received an email from Barb just now with several pictures such as the one above. I guess her notes on getting the digital camera connected worked out after all. 😉 What Barb is referring to about the keyboard is that she is likely using…
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Barb’s Excellent Tahiti Adventure – Part 1
Tahiti Bound It’s 5:30 AM as I write this and I got back from the airport about 30 minutes ago to drop Barb and her mother Ruth as today they will both be beginning their Excellent Tahiti Adventure. I’m not exactly sure if Barb will…
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Urban Beach Picnic
With the last few weekends of August approaching and Barb and I beginning to focus more and more on our upcoming travels in September, we decide to take advantage of the great summer weather and get out somewhere for a relaxing picnic for the day.…
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The Making of an Excellent Adventure 2006 – Part 3
Planning completed. Twice. If you haven’t been a regular reader to my blog, you may not know that for the first time ever, Barb and I are taking separate trips this year. As I had said in my previous post on this topic, Barb was…
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The Abbotsford Circle Farm Tour
Last year some time our friend Gayle tipped me off onto what is known as the Abbotsford Circle Farm Tour. This tour is comprised of 12 farms or rural locations in and around the Abbotsford area. We had originally planned on doing the Circle Farm…
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Combing the Beaches on the Sunshine Coast
The coast of British Columbia has an infinite number of destinations that are worth visiting. One of the closest to Vancouver is what is known as the Sunshine Coast. About a 30 minute drive from downtown Vancouver, the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal is one of…
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Relaxing After a Seattle Weekend
Barb and I had plans to head down south this weekend. Down south being Seattle which is about a 3 hour drive south from Vancouver. We were planning to see some friends in Auburn which is about 30 minutes further south of Seattle and rather…
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Where the Farm Meets the City
Late last summer when my friend Kevin and I were out bike riding, we came across this market taking place in the Trout Lake Community Centre parking lot. We later found out that it there is a farmer’s market taking place there from May to…
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The Making of an Excellent Adventure 2006 – Part 2
Two trips, 15911 km apart I think that we’ve gone far enough into the year to spill the beans on our Excellent Adventure travel plans for this year. 2006 will go down in our travel history as a very significant year for several reasons. Perhaps…
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ExcellentAdventure.ca Overtakes Captain Bob
I’m sure that you’re all as excited as I am to find out that my blog has finally overtaken my arch-nemesis Captain Bob on the Google web page rankings. For those of you who are not in the loop on this (OK, everyone is out…
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The Making of My Blog – Part 5
New and Improved: with 96% more Blog I’ve been thinking about doing this for some time and due to overwhelming demand, I have increased the size of my blog pictures by 96%. OK, I confess, no one really asked for this change but I think…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Québec Adventure – Final
Golden Breakfast Since breakfast has been included with our package at the Manoir des Erables where we have been staying, we’ve had a chance to be treated to some really great meals to start out our days. Barb will tell you that one of my…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Québec Adventure – Part 6
Country Bound As today is Wednesday and the half way point of our Quebec Adventure, we’re going to be picking up our rental car and driving to the second phase of our trip going to the Quebec region of Chaudière-Appalaches. Chaudière-Appalaches is the region of…
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Happy 1st Birthday
As today is February 1st, I’m officially celebrating my ExcellentAdventure.ca blog’s 1st birthday! In the past 12 months you’re travelled with me to Washington D.C., Ottawa and of course the highlight of the year, our Excellent Italian Adventure. By the time you’re reading this we…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Québec Adventure – Part 5
Putting the Winter Back Into Winter Carnival There’s got to be a better word for freezing because as we’ve discovered today, there are so many nuances to it. First, there’s the classic definition of just being really, really cold. But you have to factor in…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Québec Adventure – Part 4
A Bonhomme Good Time We arrived in Quebec City at about 9AM yesterday and flagged a taxi to deliver us to our hotel: the Hotel Sainte-Anne, right in the heart of Vieux Québec or old Quebec. I had booked our room at the Ste-Anne about…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Québec Adventure – Part 3
Yes, our Excellent Mystery Adventure is now our Barb and Baden’s Excellent Quebec Adventure. Barb and I arrived in Quebec City early this morning after taking the late night flight out of Vancouver and connected through Montreal. Less of a Mystery than Planned Those of…
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New Web Site
Yesterday I changed my web sites to a new web hosting company. As a result of this you may see some things a bit different until I get everything configured properly. My applogies in advance. Baden
