Canada #45
“What was the best thing about your trip?”
We’re often asked this question when we return from a holiday and it’s always difficult to give just one answer. After five weeks in Canada, here are the things we loved best.
The Best Party
Canada Day celebrations Victoria BC
The Best Airbnb View
Vancouver, from our 21st floor apartment – by day,
at night,
and early in the morning as the cruise ships arrived at Canada Place.
The Best Water View
Pitt River
The Best Mountain Views
Sky Pilot and Co-Pilot, Coast Ranges, Squamish BC
Fitzsimmons Range, Whistler BC
The Best Wildlife Encounters
chipmunk, Whistler BC
hummingbird, Butchart Gardens, Victoria BC
bald eagle, Brentwood Bay, Vancouver Island BC
grizzly bear, Grouse Mountain, Vancouver BC
raccoon family, Mount Royal, Montréal QC
and the squirrels, who were everywhere!
The Best Food
20 flavours of hot chocolate, enormous ice cream sundaes, chocolate pizza! Even the ceiling was all about chocolate at Chocolato, Montréal QC
The Best Garden
Jardins Gamelin, Place Émilie-Gamelin, Montréal QC
a free community garden with a cafe, space for games, music and family activities
and several themed gardens, educational for both adults and children
The Best Adventures
For me, a birthday trip to Niagara Falls
For Glen, EdgeWalk – 356 metres above the ground at CN Tower, Toronto ON
So many wonderful experiences in a truly amazing country. Canada, we’ll be back!
The Eternal Traveller 
It all looks spectacular, that’s always a hard question when someone asks what was the best bit? We’ve had that question even after covering half the country. 🤷🏼♀️ I do the same as you and break it up into categories. Those sundaes though we pretty fantastic.
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The sundaes wer great and I had a different one every day we were in Quebec. 🙂 You can’t go wrong with chocolate and ice cream, especially on hot days.
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Wow, so many awesome pictures and such wonderful memories. How can you possibly name just one. So much to love in such a beautiful country. That chocolate made me drool and as for that rainbow over Niagara Falls, wow, what a birthday present!
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It was a special birthday that’s for sure – one to remember.
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I can see why they are the best. What a collection. I must say Niagara is my pick of the bunch! 🙂
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Niagara day was great. We would like to return to that area and stay for several days. There is much more than just the falls to see there.
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What an amazing trip you had. I like your wrap up of your favorite things about your trip. 🙂
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Cathy, it really was a fabulous trip. We definitely want to return to see more.
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Canadian tourism would love this post. Impressive photos, and that ice cream looks good enough to cause one to travel all by itself. All the photos were wonderful, but I do love that hummingbird shot.
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We went to Chocolato every day we were in Quebec and I had a different sundae each time. Lucky we did lots of walking. Mr ET took the photo of the hummingbird.
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I could walk all day if one of those sundaes was at the end of the trip. 🙂
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What difficult choices to make but your selection of highlights is lovely. I love the grizzly bear.
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It was nice to share some favourite places. You might enjoy reading more about the grizzlies at Grouse Mountain in this post. https://theeternaltraveller.wordpress.com/2018/12/09/theres-a-bear-in-there/
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🙂 🙂 🙂
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You should be working for Tourism Canada!! Wonderful photos to remember your holiday – and for others to enjoy it too. You certainly lucked out with your Vancouver airbnb.
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Wouldn’t that be a dream job. 🙂
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We will wait for you!!🙂
Glad you had such an amazing time, great photos!
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Thanks Christie. There is so much more we want to see in Canada.
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It is a fabulous country and I think you have done a great job with your round-up. The highlight for me is that Hummingbird photo – how lucky were you!
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Mr ET took the hummingbird photo. It’s a beauty isn’t it. Sadly, I didn’t even see the bird because I was busy taking a photo of the loos!
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Well done Mr ET!
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There’s an even better one but I didn’t use it because I’ve been encouraging him to enter it in a photographic competition.
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Fabulous, thank you! I’m already looking forward to reading about your next trip.
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Thanks! The next series will be completely different to this one.
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Wow what a killer list!! I’ve been lucky to see some of those things and I can agree! Five weeks in Canada is such a dream too.
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Thanks Lorraine. We could easily have another five weeks and see completely different places. It’s so beautiful.
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I am surprised that you listed Jardins Gamelins. I do not really feel safe enough in the Berri area to stay for a while even during daytime…
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Our Airbnb was a ten minute walk from here and there was no time, day or night, when we didn’t feel safe. There were so many families out enjoying all the activities. We loved it.
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I love looking back through my photos and all the things I’ve done. Great how much you can pack into 5 weeks, Carol 🙂 🙂
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It’s taken me a year to write about everything we did and I’ve enjoyed reliving it all so much. Thanks Jo.
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So basically Canada was great all round. We couldn’t agree more as we absolutely loved the whole country. Great photos of a wonderful place, brought back so many brilliant memories.
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Oh yes, we had a wonderful time. The best part was visiting our daughter who was living in Toronto at the time.
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Great recap of your trip. Makes us want to get in the car and drive north again.
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You should!
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What a wonderful selection. Some day I’d love be to go back to Canada.
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We definitely want to return. There’s plenty more to see.
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I can see why people love Canada. It looks to have the most breathtakingly beautiful scenery.
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Breathtaking is the perfect word. We couldn’t get enough of snow-capped mountains. And there is so much water. Mr ET decided Canada is all water with some land in between.
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That’s probably an apt discription.
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If only we had some of that water here. 🙂
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Glad to hear you will return. I have learned a lot about my own country following along with you. I’ll be in the watch for your ‘bests’. By the way I hope that grizzly bear wasn’t as close to you as it looks. Wow!
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The grizzly is one of the two at Grouse Mountain in Vancouver, and yes we were that close but they were inside their beautiful enclosure.
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Oh that makes sense! Thank you.
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Your photos are always so splendid!
Thank you for enjoying my old country. ❤
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Thank you Yvonne. We had such a marvellous time and really hope to go again one day.
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Seeing the photos all gathered here in one place, it is easy to see what a wonderful place Canada is – no wonder you want to go back!
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And we only saw a little bit. There is so much more to see there.
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You’ll need another five weeks! 🙂
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And more I think.
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Wonderful views!! and love all the wildlife encounters, those are always our favorites too. The themed gardens are such a treat as well.
Peta
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Everywhere we went the views were stunning, especially of mountains with snow still on them. Such a rare sight for us.
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