As your reading this I’ll be sitting in Heathrow airport or doing some last minute shopping for some MP3 speakers (which I so desperatly need!) I’m off to Canada for two weeks.

Our first week will be spent following the tourist trail. I’m ashamed to admit I know sod all about Canada. The only tourist attraction I know of is the CN tower! But thats what the 7 hour flight and a big guide book is all for! By the time I reached China on our first trip last year I’d learn shedloads about their culture - although nothing could have prepared us for passport control in Beijing!! By the second trip my mum and I were so clued up we sailed past the other tourists and blended in quite well with the natives - even if we we’re a bit taller! I was actually tall in China!

We’re heading to Toronto first and spending a day or two there, getting a train to Montreal and again a few days spent there until we get another train to Quebec. Then back to Toronto where we’ll be hiring a car to go to Lake Rice for a week in a log cabin. I’m looking forward to a nice relaxing break by the lake after all the tourisyness!

I’ve got all my painkillers packed, I know my hips and knees will be giving me trouble the whole time. Theres no chance of getting me into the lake though - I did my A level biology coursework on fresh water mayflies which meant wading into flatford mill pond catching all the bugs that lived in there and identifying them. After that I’m never getting in freshwater again! If I’d known what I know now I would never have bathed in that river in honduras!

Dont worry I wont forget about you - I’m addicted to the internet! Dont forget to contact me with places to go etc..I wanna know where the best bars are!