Canada Trip

[Quattro Pete]

Spent last week in Canada, this time for pleasure. Had a great time, enjoyed some outstanding food, and everyone we met was very friendly. Hoping to cover west part of the country next time.

Wife's Q5 averaged around 26 mpg overall on this trip - mostly hwy driving with a little bit of city and stop-and-go traffic.

Here is a handful of random photos.

Casa Loma, Toronto:

Views from CN Tower, Toronto:

Toronto Zoo:

Ottawa:

Wallpaper in a restaurant in Ottawa:

Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal:

Biodome, Montreal:

Niagara Falls:

 

[The Critic]

Looks like you had a great trip. I am actually in Montreal right now - so your post gave me some ideas on places to explore. Other than the ones you posted, are there any other places that you would recommend visiting?

 

[Kuato]

Awesome weather, too!

 

[Drosselmier]

I'll bet you got a shocker at the gas pumps. The kids would love the wall paper.

 

[OVERKILL]

Great pics QP! Another couple of areas worth visiting are Grand Bend and Muskoka.

Wish I knew you were coming, it would have been great to meet up for a drink, I could have probably got IndyIan onboard as well, but understand that this may not have worked with your timeline

Let me know the next time you are in the GTA if you want to meet up though.

 

[JHZR2]

Originally Posted By: The Critic
Looks like you had a great trip. I am actually in Montreal right now - so your post gave me some ideas on places to explore. Other than the ones you posted, are there any other places that you would recommend visiting?


Old Quebec City. Changing of the guard at the citadel.


Great pics OP!

 

[Kira]

Always a fine time in Canada. Many a short trip during my youth as we lived 80 miles south of Montreal. Subsequent trips around the Great Lakes (Highway 1), through the plains and east to Quebec' City.

A trip to the western side is overdue. While I'm a good traveller, the Canucks are friendly too. I go off the beaten path and I think they're a bit shocked when I don't exhibit any "questionable American attributes" either real or imagined.

 

[AirgunSavant]

Great pictures!!!!!!!!!
I used to go to Canada every year with some work buddies.
In the same area. Hamilton, Stoney Creek, etc.

 

[Quattro Pete]

Originally Posted By: The Critic
Looks like you had a great trip. I am actually in Montreal right now - so your post gave me some ideas on places to explore. Other than the ones you posted, are there any other places that you would recommend visiting?

Take a hike up to Mount Royal. We didnt have the time for this one.

 

[SLCraig]

Great photography.. I love my country, so much good stuff to see here.
Toronto is a mecca for good food. Just so much everywhere you go.. It sucks for driving in Toronto but for everything else its exceptional.
Glad you had a good time.

 

[Quattro Pete]

Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
Great pics QP! Another couple of areas worth visiting are Grand Bend and Muskoka.

Wish I knew you were coming, it would have been great to meet up for a drink, I could have probably got IndyIan onboard as well, but understand that this may not have worked with your timeline

Let me know the next time you are in the GTA if you want to meet up though.

Yeah, I thought about it, but with the limited attention span of a one-year old, most of our dining/drinking endavours were problematic and had to be cut short. I would certainly like to meet up one of these days.

 

[Papa Bear]

You should have hooked up with Patman - I bet he would have shown you around.

 

[Red91]

Those are some beautiful buildings.

 

[addyguy]

You made it up to Ottawa - good to see!

Wish I could meet up with more BITOG'ers...that would be cool.

 

[Scum_Frog]

Glad you enjoyed our great nation!

Great photo's...what camera(phone?) did you use?

 

[Quattro Pete]

Thanks. I use an older Nikon D5200.

 

[daves87rs]

Great pics by the way....

 

[userfriendly]

There are dozens of videos like the following between Calgary and Field, BC. This is dated 2010, the construction through Banff and Lake Louise park was completed a couple of years ago. With the speed limits raised to 110Km in Manitoba & Saskatchewan, 120km on the Coquihalla in BC and twinning from the Manitoba/Ontario border to Lake Louise, with a 6-pack of Rock Star 'n Red Bull, Winnipeg to Vancouver is a 22 hour drive including pit stops.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6rF9634_yQ