Location: On the upper Ottawa River, Ontario - Canada
Time of writting: 23.45
Ah yes Arthurs Day! My mind reminisses to this day last year and a drunken session which started in the Left Bank (Kilkenny) and ended in the Court Yard bar in Naas Co. Kildare! How my life has changed since!!!
It's now the 207th day of my travels so as you can appriciate my memory while not too bad could benifit from some sort of documentation of what I've been up to, if even for nothing else than to ease the burden of alsymers that is bound to kick in once my head is finished dealing with it's current preocupation of going bald!
Within that 207 days I have spent 3 months in the USA and thus far almost 5 months in Canada. During the writing of future blogs I intend to talk about days already spent and places already visited but for now I am going to procede from the present. Today stated in Montreal at the home of Robert & Leah Theil, the kind folks who had employed me for 3 months of the summer on their ranch in northern Quebec. Having decided to firstly travel east to Nova Scotia, a trip that begun 2 weeks ago, the Theils had invited Marco (a crazy German guy Im traveling with, who had also worked on the ranch) and I to dinner on our return trip through Montreal. It was an excellent night spent in good comapny as the Theils are the epitimy of the good natured kind type of people I have been very fortunate to meet on my travels thus far. Waking up in an actuall bed having spent the last two weeks camping was a pleasent experience this morning! From there we drove the 150kms to Ottawa, the nations capital. Ottawa really surprised me as I had not expected it to be so picturesque! I spent the afternoon trying to shoot some good photography - but failing badly! And then stoped by the Government buildings where First Nation Peoples (Canadian Indians) were protesting at the lack of educational funding they recieve. This was a really interesting sight as rather than just making speaches these guys had singing, drums, rain dancing ..... The works! I shot some video and will try to post it here shortly.
Seeing as it's Arthurs day I made a special effort (like it took much persuaision!) and went to the Glue Bar for a pint of the Black stuf! After that I visited the National Museme of Nature (coz I wanted to see some Dinosoures!) and from there drove to where I am now writing this blog from - Wilderness Tours on the upper Ottawa river. The plan is to do some white water rafting for the weekend but have to wait until their reception opens at 8am to find out if the weather will allow it - so watch this space........
On the iPod today: The Who (Greatest Hits)
Today's weather: Dull all day and now it's bucketing down!
