Category: Another country
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Family is the reason

Nothing is more important than family. That is how we were raised and that is how we raised our kids. My family is everything. There is the ‘deep down maternal mother bear’ when I think about my daughters and clearly they are #1. But when I am in Canada there is some other ancestral genetic…
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Niagara Falls

Every day so far Wayne has envisaged sleeping in. Every day I set the alarm 1 hr earlier than he thinks he will want to wake up and every day we don’t need an alarm. We woke from our Hamilton stay with a slight headache but not enough to squash the excitement of it being…
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Oh, Canada Day!

Anyone who knows me, knows that Australia Day is one of my favourite public holidays. It is not celebrated on a date I support, but the concept of having a day to celebrate the country we call home is definitely supported by me and usually celebrated with gusto. When Qantas made its final change to…
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Here we go…

We have made it to fly out day, finally! We have jumped through all the hoops for international travel in this new world, checked in with success and now sitting in the airport bar about to drink our first holiday beer! Now I can be happy and relax. The pre-travel stress is done – they…