The old city - Quebec

In the morning we were strolling around the city with beautiful weather: cloudless skies and the temperatures 20 C. First, again Upper Town (Haute-Ville), then Lower Town (Basse-Ville) which is the oldest part of Quebec's. With its narrow streets full of typical French restaurants and cafes, it dis...

Quebec City by night

After a long journey we had a little energy left to go to the city centre to enjoy the atmosphere of a Wednesday night. There are ongoing preparations for the local film festival. Quebec City is the cradle of the French part of the population in Canada, which in many respects resembles Paris. The ...

To Quebec City

From Ottawa we drove  to Quebec City - the capital of the Province of the same name, located on the St. Lawrence River. We covered 450 km in as many as 6 hours because the drive through Montreal during peak hours (on the highway intersecting the city) took 2 hours! For the first time we saw the va...

Ottawa's suburbs, family and Canadian First Nations

 Here is an excerpt lyrics from The Cabaret of the Old Men: Family, oh  family. Family doesn’t rejoice, when is. But when she is not You are alone as a dog. But it makes you extra happy when they are living abroad .... Especially somewhere in North America, right? My cousin Tadeusz with his wife ...

The Thousand Islands

From the town of Gananoque, Ontario, still in the province of Ontario, we are taking a  cruise ship on a tour of the land of the Thousand Islands. The Thousand Islands constitute an archipelago of 1,864 islands that straddles the Canada-U.S. border in the Saint Lawrence River as it emerges from the...

Ottawa - the Capital

Ottawa - the capital and fourth largest city in Canada; located in the eastern part of the province of Ontario, on the south bank of the Ottawa River. Here lives here around a million people. Why Ottawa is the capital of the country? On December 31, 1857, Queen Victoria chose this city for the new...

Greenwich an Emirates Airline

Sunday in London means choosing one of the great green areas where you can relax from the hustle and bustle of the city. We chose Greenwich. We went there by boat - a catamaran on the Thames watching the city from the river. In  Greenwich there is the longitude ZERO meridian of and except a big pa...

Borough Market and Brick Lane

Do you want to know how look like a hipster? In London hipsters are everywhere, but most likely you can peep into their pop culture in Brick Lane. The history of this street and the surrounding area is similar to many other boroughs of large cities, which are first occupied by artists, outcasts a...