Canadian Museum of Human Rights Winnipeg ‘All roads lead to Winnipeg’, said nobody, ever, I bet. Which is probably why the Oldies were so flabbergasted when they spotted a Graz-registered camper van in the city centre. Graz is about 25km from our home town, but in this context, these travellers were practically our next-door neighbours! But I wasn’t surprised about where in Winnipeg they saw the van – in the car park of the Canadian Museum of Human Rights. There’s…
A Visit to Assiniboine Park Zoo Winnipeg Yes, Winnipeg sure is a green city. It’s sometimes hard to believe that it has a population of over 750,000. And after all our trips downtown, I enjoyed wandering around the numerous parks in suburbia. Where, of course, I kept coming across geese. Geese gathering with gulls… Geese going for goal… Geese queuing up for the school bus… With all this greenery and water, no wonder the geese love it here! It was…
Bird’s-eye view of the Exchange District Winnipeg I’ve just found out that Canadians call a one dollar coin a ‘Loonie’ and a two dollar coin a ‘Toonie’. Great, now I know I’ll never be short of cash in this country. I always have a couple of Loonies with me! Anyway, the Loonies, I mean the Oldies, took themselves downtown yet again, this time with a view to exploring the Exchange District. Apparently, Winnipeg was one of the fastest growing cities…
Dalnavert Museum and the Forks, Winnipeg Right. This is definitely a record. Winnipeg has got to be the furthest I have ever been from the sea! It’s slap bang in the middle of Canada, so I must be well over 2,000 km from both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Bear with me while I freak out. Eeeeeek! Right. Now I have that out of my system, I must say that I was almost equally dumbfounded by how green the city…
Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau Canada Dry? No, Canada Wet! What better way to spend a rainy afternoon than visiting a museum? The Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau was unlike any museum I’d ever visited. And I have visited quite a few in my time, I can tell you. For a start, the building itself is quite an eyeful. The Dynamic Duo had already spotted it from Parliament Hill the previous day, and immediately resolved to check it out. I…