Tag: Canada

Visiting the Maritimes with the Parents! First stop: Halifax

ByTravelling Minion December 18, 2021 2 Comments
For the first time since the COVID Pandemic hit, I am travelling in October! This time with Papa and Mama Minion! With Canada's numbers looking pretty stable through the summer, the idea of travelling domestically became a real possibility. With a lucrative Westjet Companion fare offer, securing tickets for the three of us to the East Coast affordably made a lot of sense. In addition, years ago I...

Travelling Minions in 2020

ByTravelling Minion January 3, 2021 1 Comment
Probably like everyone else on the planet, 2020 did not go as planned. Back at the start of the year I originally intended to take two major trips with the opportunity for smaller ones in between. Unfortunately, with this global pandemic, I only embarked on one trip early in 2020. I debated whether a year in review this year would be very worthwhile given that most of the year I spent at home....

Let’s start with the Island Hopper

ByTravelling Minion March 2, 2020 1 Comment
Getting to the Island Hopper When I first started telling people about this trip, a common question was "Why are you flying the wrong way?" Due to some of the rules that surround an Aeroplan mini RTW (round the world) booking. I needed to start my trip in Toronto and make Perth my destination in order to give me the maximum available distances to achieve the routing I wanted. I also needed to get...

Day trip to Ottawa and our last day in Montreal

ByTravelling Minion April 12, 2019 0 Comments
Ottawa Since we were on this side of the country, Gimpy and I decided we wanted to day trip to Ottawa. We hadn't fully fleshed out our plans prior to arriving, but as our time in Montreal progressed we eventually settled on taking the early train from Montreal to Ottawa, to maximize our time in our nation's capital. We woke up at the unfortunate hour of 4:30 to take the subway to the train...

Montreal Part 2!

ByTravelling Minion April 5, 2019 0 Comments
Breakfast at Faberge Our plan today is to spend it with a friend from home who moved to Montreal for her studies. We'll call her Wanderlost! We made plans to have breakfast at a place Gimpy had found called Faberge. We tried to arrive early since we'd read it gets quite busy on the weekend. Thankfully we were seated within minutes, since it filled up very quickly afterwards, and by the time we...

First days in Montreal

ByTravelling Minion March 29, 2019 1 Comment
To Montreal! Since we were flying within Canada entry into the domestic terminal was simply a pass through the security lines. Thankfully, if you are a Trusted Traveller then you have a dedicated security screening lane at YVR, which both Gimpy and I were. With security a breeze we had an hour and a bit to kill before our flight was to board. So we spent it in the YVR Domestic Plaza Premium...