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So On Thursday I made my way to Toronto bus station for a day trip to Niagara falls with Coach Canada (Stagecoach). This was uneventful until we actually arrived where sadly unlike at Iguazu and the Terracotta Warriors they didn’t explain where to go when we got off the public bus – even though they [...]

So after leaving the Royal Ontario museum I had a pizza for supper followed by watching the movie 9 a bit later. The next day I wasn’t feeling 100% so I had a lie in before heading out to see some more tourist attractions. First I headed to Casa Loma which is Spanish for house [...]

For starters the advertising isn’t true. Most Torontians don’t in fact appear almost as cold as Coors Beer. That said I was highlighted of this fact when I got on the public bus from the airport which wasn’t exactly a great first impression of the city. Anyhow after catching the express bus and then the [...]

On Sunday I headed over to Quebec city on a coach tour. The journey there was uneventful. When we arrived in Quebec we went on a walking tour with a local guide which was OK and he gave out some good information but he also couldn’t stop talking about the shopping opportunites which apparently only [...]

I flew into Montreal on Tuesday afternoon before making my way downtown to my hostel. My journey downtown was uneventful and I got left at the bus station which is conveniently located over the main metro station Berri Uqam. There I got my weeks metro pass and headed to my hostel. The Montréal metro is [...]

This September I’ve taken a couple of weeks off to do some more travelling – this time to visit Nova Scotia in Canada which in the original Latin means “New Scotland” (credit to them for not directly stealing one of our place names and at least appending New to the beginning :p). Anyhow unlike Chelsea [...]

I’m off to Canada on holiday in a couple of weeks, so I’ll be making some more blog posts while I’m over there. Enjoy.

I’m now working in IT which is mostly good fun so I don’t have much time for blogging anymore. I’m also learning a lot of new technologies too which is interesting. In fact the only reason I have time now is that I’m heading up to Manchester by train to meet up with a good [...]

I sent my European Parliament members an email this morning about the EU extending copyright from the current term of copyright for sound recordings from 50 years to 95 years. The vote on this issue is going to be this Thursday. Anyhow within today I got an email from both of my Liberal Democrat MEP’s [...]

I personally am a Mac user, and have been for a few years now but one thing I notice is that lots of people will come and criticise my choice of computer based on lack of software support for the platform. However while it is true that there are certain professional applications without Mac support [...]