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Planning for Hawaii

ByTravelling Minion April 26, 2019 3 Comments
Aloha! In May I will be travelling to Hawaii with some friends! Some familiar and some making their Travelling Minions debut! FunkyCat and Vino will be once again be travelling with me. Some of you will remember FunkyCat from our adventure through Japan in 2017. Vino Joined Gimpy and I when we visited Croatia after travelling through Turkey Meanwhile, we'll be introducing three new friends:...

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...

Planning for Montreal

ByTravelling Minion February 12, 2019 0 Comments
First Trip of the Year I'm about to leave on my first trip of the year! My first trip of 2019 will be to Montreal, Canada in February! I've been to Montreal before, albeit over a decade ago, so I was excited when the opportunity came up. Like I had mentioned in my 2018 Wrap up, I don't have many 2019 plans for travel. Flights and Accommodations And while this isn't exactly last minute, it did...

Looking back at Travelling Minion’s 2018

ByTravelling Minion December 31, 2018 1 Comment
It feels like 2018 has flown by! While I didn't go on as many trips this year, they were still pretty memorable and special ones! As the year draws to a close, I thought it'd be great to look back at some of the awesome adventures I was able to have this year! Korea and the Olympics I took my first trip of 2018 in February to South Korea. My main reason for the trip, was to visit the 2018 Winter...