Tag: Family

Visiting the Maritimes with the Parents! First stop: Halifax

ByTravelling Minion December 18, 2021 3 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...

#TBT – Whistler

ByMinion-Chris May 10, 2018 1 Comment
Quick throwback to a family trip to Whistler last year! 2017 Family Whistler Trip In the summer of 2017, our family took a short trip to Whistler, BC for the Canada Day weekend. My parents have a timeshare there and so our accommodations were already taken care of.  After work and dinner, we all hopped in my car and made the scenic drive up the Sea to Sky highway towards Whistler. We arrived,...

#TBT Europe 2012 Wrapup

ByMinion-Chris September 28, 2017 0 Comments
Throwback to Europe 2012. We spent our last few days in Rome before heading home to Canada. Here is my Europe 2012 Wrapup Europe Wrap Up Looking back, this European trip in 2012 was the last major family trip we've taken. Since then as we've grown older and schedules have become more packed, it's harder to find time to travel together. So looking back on this trip has been a huge blessing...

Last day in Rome!

ByMinion-Chris September 21, 2017 1 Comment
After returning to Rome from Bologna, we spent the entire day exploring some of the major Rome tourist attractions. Today we took it a bit easy for our last full day in Rome. Walking around town We didn't have much of a plan today.  We'd seen most of what we wanted to see in Rome already. After sleeping in a little, we set out separately to explore, shop or sightsee. I took this as an...

Return to Rome

ByMinion-Chris September 14, 2017 0 Comments
We spent our last day in the Bologna region visiting Venice. We return to Rome one last time before heading home. Rome Sadly it was time to say good bye to Bologna. We left early in the morning and boarded a train to Rome. A few hours later we arrived, checked into our hotel and set out to explore more of this beautiful city. As we made our way through the city I had noticed these delicious...

Venice, Italy

ByMinion-Chris September 7, 2017 1 Comment
Yesterday we spent a restful day in Bologna. Today we will be visiting Venice! Train to Venice It's a two hour train ride from Bologna to Venice and we enjoyed the leisurely commute there! It was actually quite neat when we got closer to the city as the train tracks form somewhat of a land bridge to it. You could look out the window on both sides of the train and only see water. It totally set...