Canada, Generous hosts from the street, Hamac

Mike & Julia – Victoria

Gallery September 27, 2015 Emilie_Dan Leave a comment

We are walking in Victoria in the waterfront. It is late to watch the sunset and we need to find a place where to set the hammock. I want to shoot a last photo, but a guy is in the middle. I don’t mind, anyway it’s dark.

We take the backpacks, and the same guy drops his bike in our way. So, what could we do? only to start to speaking with him! I can see that the dark is coming, but what an energy ! I agree with Emilie to find later where we’ll sleep, and now to ride the wave. Continue reading Mike & Julia – Victoria →

Canada, Hamac, Hitchhiking

Tofino, surf paradise

Gallery September 27, 2015 Emilie_Dan Leave a comment

We arrive in Tofino after the worse hitch-hike experience: our driver was 18 years old. She tried to pass all the other cars, on a single lane road through the woods. Because the road was up and down, it was like a roller-coaster, so my stomach was very disturbed.

It was raining.

I asked two persons something, I got the first not polite answers in 4 months … unbearable. So everything looked like a tourist trap. We went for a coffee to make the plan, to decide if we stay or go. While putting sugar in the coffee, at the counter, I meet Jack who is travelling with his son in a van. They came from Ontario and they go now to the south. This sounds like the sign to get out of the there. They have to go, so we have 5 minutes to decide.

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Canada, Politics

Some about politics

September 26, 2015 Emilie_Dan Leave a comment

I cannot remember to visit any country and to find the people caring so much about politics. Canada is one of the richest countries, they have natural resources. The current prime minister has been here for 8 years. With one exception, all the people I talked said that this guy: puts in danger the nature by allowing oil and gas companies to expand their drillings, he cuts the budget for public libraries, scientific research, reduced the number of rangers in the national parks, despite the increased danger of fire. After 100 years, he changed the electoral system, in order to make it more difficult of people who don’t own a property to vote, or who travel. A couple of months before the elections, in the good Balkan tradition, the Canadian PM increased the allocation for mothers, some aids for people with low income.

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Canada, Hitchhiking

Kwakwaka’wakw kezako?

September 25, 2015 Emilie_Dan Leave a comment

Partis de Horseshoe Bay en ferry, nous arrivons à Nanaimo sur l’île de Vancouver, frais comme des gardons! Plusieurs fois, des femmes seules nous prennent en stop, notamment, Grace qui prie pour nous, Bave qui nous met en garde contre les tsunamis, nous indique
quelles sont les conditions de sécurité à suivre…… Tout le monde est aux petits soins avec nous, sans compter la suite de la journée…