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Quebec City and its surroundings

admin — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:42:40 +0000

I’ve always been fascinated by Canada and it’s nature: big rivers, green valleys, great lakes, and so on. But I never actually saw anything about the towns, the architecture, and so on.
Yesterday, while I was looking up for a friend some informations about Canada, I stumbled upon lots of sites describing all the various cities and in particular the region of Quebec and its omonymous town.

First of all it’s a very populated town, second largest one after Montreal. Then, I discovered about Château Frontenac, a historic hotel which dominates the city skyline and it’s really a wonderful piece of architecture!

Also, I didn’t really know but the Montmorency Falls are actually about 30m higher than the more famous Niagara Falls! they’re located very close to Quebec city itself, and from the pictures I saw around the net they are really a marvelous place to visit. I surely will be booking myself a room in one of the Quebec City Hotels Canada to view personally all those wonders… it’s really worth it!

Enjoying Calgary, Canada

admin — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:58:40 +0000

Calgary, Canada is nestled within the Rocky Mountains foothills, just waiting to be experienced! Also known as ‘Heart of the New West’, it is a place lush with Canadian West heritage. Going there would give you the chance to experience the Old West, the New West, and the Wild West! With a population of 1 million, the city offers plenty of breathtaking escapades!

In Calgary you can experience and see parks, and pathways, festivals, live performances, cultural attractions, spa experiences, sunshine, and lots of blue skies! There you can behold Banff National Park and the Canadian Rockies. You can do things like relaxing, snowmobile riding, snowboarding, skiing, skating, dog-sledding, horse-drawn sleigh riding, canyon ice walking, golfing, rafting, canoeing, mountain climbing, horse-back riding, and more!

From Europe and North America, Calgary is just a single plane away! Getting around can be done by renting cars, vans, or recreational vehicles. You can even ride a vintage rail car or take a prairie steamer.

In Calgary, there are over 11,000 lodging options. You can choose from high class Calgary hotels, historic bed and breakfasts, resorts, chalets, cabins, inns, heritage homes, and more. There are also lots of accommodations geared towards satisfying families, accommodations that have facilities for children. In Calgary, Canada you are sure to have nothing but enjoyment!

Study abroad in South America

admin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:51:00 +0000

Last week was talking with a good friend of mine that is living abroad, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He made a very important decision some years ago, when he married a beautiful girl he met while traveling in South America. He often asks me to go visit him, and since I have a young son I’ve started to looking for courses to study abroad South America. Being a freelance journalist, I could visit my friend and at same time have my son learn a new useful language in one of the best Spanish school Buenos Aires .

Spanish indeed is becoming one of the most spread language of the planet, and when my son asked me “Why is it important to learn Spanish?” I did a quick research on the web and discovered that Spanish is spoken by almost 400 million people worldwide, which is reason enough to learn the language. But it’s even more compelling when you realize that about half of the population in the Western Hemisphere speaks Spanish, making it the primary language for as many people as English in this region of the world.

You never know what will be your future, but surely knowing an extra language is a great bonus, both for your curriculum and for pleasure: because of this, I want to do with my son what my parents didn’t do with me, teach him a new language while he’s still young, since recent studies shown that this is the best moment to learn a foreign language.

Lake of Castel dell’Alpi

admin — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:00:40 +0000

The small town of “Castel dell’Alpi” is located between Bologna and Florence, in the appennines, in the Comune of San Benedetto val di Sambro, counting about 4000 people.

It is an artificial lake, and it’s quite popular in the nearby area during the summer. It is possible to take short boat trips and do pic-nic on the fields nearby. It is easy to reach from Bologna, taking the highway and exiting in “Pian del Voglio”. We went there some years ago and was very crowded, hard even to find a parking place!

In the photo below you can see it, and in the distance the main bridge passing over it.

Lost in time…

admin — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:06:25 +0000

Nearby “Passo Colla”, 1000m of height on sea level, past 4km of rough road you can find an old abandoned small village called “Dugara”. Some houses are completely broken, only the walls left with some ivy growing on them. Others are still in good conditions, only waiting for someone to come there and open their windows again, to gain a new life.

All around, nature and a weird silence. You can only hear the sound of a nearby water fountain. Some birds, the wind that moves leaves. Apart for that nothing but silence.

The life goes on, and the bells of the small church located in village’s entrance are ready to sing again.

the small chapel nearby village entrance

closeup of an ivy climbing on the old walls

a group of wrecks