After a night of Cape Breton step dancing at the Pipers’ Ceilidh yesterday, I was ready to dig into the Scottish history here and learn how to do a bit of step dancing myself. I made my way from Iona to St. Ann’s, where the wonderful Gaelic College of Celtic Arts and Crafts is located. [...]
Cultural Dancing
Cape Breton Music & Step Dancing: Pipers’ Ceilidh
My first night in Cape Breton was at the Pipers’ Ceilidh during the Féis An Eilein Gaelic festival in Christmas Island, Nova Scotia. The evening was filled with Cape Breton music and step dancing as the pipers, fiddlers and piano accompaniment added to the traditional tunes. Below is a video of Anita MacDonald, a student [...]
Cultural Dancing
Cape Breton Travel: Pipers’ Ceilidh, Canada
I arrived back at my place in Vancouver at about 1:30pm. After a few hours of re-packing from my trip to Alberta, I put my feet up, made myself dinner and headed back to the airport for my red eye flight to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Yes, I was going from the luxury destinations of Banff, [...]
British Columbia
Vancouver Restaurant: So.Cial at Le Magasin
For those of you who don’t already know this, I’m a seafood-eating vegetarian, officially known as a pescetarian. Eating out can often get boring when even the most extensive menus only give me a choice of salmon or halibut. So when a hip downtown restaurant invites you to try out their new veggie-heavy menu, you [...]
Travel
Canadian Flights: WestJet vs. Air Canada
I’ve spent my whole summer travelling through Canada on both of the two Canadian airlines: WestJet and Air Canada. There are quite a few differences between the two and below I’ve broken them down into my own comparisons below. Air Canada: In-flight movies are free, on-demand and on private seatback screens (no live TV). WestJet: [...]
Alberta
Fairmont Banff Springs Mineral Pool & Restaurant
The best way I could think of to heal my bruised knee from today’s horseback riding incident, was to head to the mineral pool at the Fairmont Banff Springs hotel, in Alberta, Canada. I hopped into my swimsuit and headed to the pools that I hoped would cure me ($69 CAD a day for hotel [...]
