Destinations
Our travel destinations around the globe as a family. Travelling is our favorite hobby!
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Getting to know Newfoundland – Part II
*Thank you for the kind comments!!! I'll be back later this week with details of our newly revealed little secret. 🙂 Following our tours of beautiful St. John's (Part I here). The next day, our plan was to take the boat trip, the peak point of the trip. Due to some recommendations, we decided to leave a small town about 40 minutes from downtown St. John's, called the Bay Bulls. We took the 11:00 a.m. tour with O'Briens, properly married, because the temperature should be about 9 degrees at the exit and about 5ºC on the high seas. We would have the chance to see whales, birds and icebergs, but…
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Getting to know Newfoundland – Part I
Another short trip came up and this time we decided to take the opportunity to know another Canadian province: Newfoundland and Labrador. The province is further east in Canada and indeed all of North America. St. John’s, our destination, is the provincial capital with about 200,000 inhabitants and lies in the Newfoundland area, which is an island. The other part of the province, Labrador is gigantic and continental. Red dot there is St. John’s in Newfoundland and Labrador We had about 4 days there and it was more than enough to see the attractions in the city and still drive a little more to see beautiful landscapes along the coast…
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Bits and pieces of Brazil
Our fourth visit to Brazil in almost 7 years was, as always, great. Of course right, many family and friends moments is all good right! Arriving in Porto Alegre, the big wow was the heat. The day was umido and muffled. After a harsh winter like we've had here this year, I felt all unused to the warmth. The rest of the days in Passo Fundo were quiet (even it could be warmer.. rsrs), lots of sun and outdoors. Well, this post is actually a collection of photos of things and places that I photographed in our season there. My photographic approach (wow, it seemed important now.. rsrsrsr) was to…
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Porto Alegre – RS
Porto Alegre, the state capital, was our last aerial bridge, then we went with our foot on the road to our final destination, Passo Fundo. We stayed only one day in Porto Alegre and did not make great tours simply for lack of time (between arriving tired and such…). We at least went for a walk in the city center, taking Alice on the playground and having lunch at rua da Praia shopping. My focus on this visit to Brazil, in terms of photography, is to register the country with tourist eyes. Not that I feel touristy (although I know very little of Porto Alegre, and I think so, I…
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Travel with children | Long-haul flights
If you are someone who accompanies our page on FB, you may have seen that we have embarked towards Brazil this last week for a season of approximately 2 weeks. What you may not know is that Diego stayed in Canada for a while longer because of Dexter and his recovery (I still owe this post is not even) and because of that, Alice and I came alone, more than 32 hours of travel to our final destination (this counting 4 flights and a road trip). Today I tell you how to travel with small children on long-haul flights. Leaving Ottawa, we stopped in Detroit, then Atlanta, Rio de Janeiro…
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Gananoque – ON
Friday is many photos day here on the blog, prepared? Lol This last weekend we decided to pick up the whole family and meet with friends Carol and Luciano for two days of relaxation. We chose the small town of Gananoque-ON, since it was “almost” that in the middle of the road, are 161 km from home and 309 km from Mississauga, where they live. Gananoque is a small town on the edge of the Saint Lawrence River with approximately 5,200 inhabitants and is a great access point to the Thousand Islands (1000 Islands), the region’s major tourist spot. The city is close to Kingston, also known as the gate…
