Completely untrue. Are you saying that the hotels you stayed in previously didn’t change their linens between guests or wash their cutlery ? Its ok if you aren’t comfortable with the precautions an establishment might be taking but I would caution you to not make blanket statements about an entire industries cleanliness that aren’t based in fact.Travel means using other people's bed linen, cutlery, food, household items, even in a hotel. It's the same as swapping your home with a stranger neighbor for one week. I do not see my family doing that during this time of pandemic.
I completely agree. We are about to embark on a 6 night road trip where 5 of those nights will be spent in a rented condo and a rented townhouse (the last night in a hotel) and we have zero concerns about any of it.Completely untrue. Are you saying that the hotels you stayed in previously didn’t change their linens between guests or wash their cutlery ? Its ok if you aren’t comfortable with the precautions an establishment might be taking but I would caution you to not make blanket statements about an entire industries cleanliness that aren’t based in fact.
Happy (early) anniversary! August 21st is our wedding anniversary as well (16 years tomorrow for us). Hope you have a wonderful anniversary!Tomorrow is our 20th anniversary. We were supposed to celebrate at Castaway Cay and Palo. We took advantage of the fact we have been on vacation and not in contact with anyone for awhile to send the kids stay with their grand-parents a couple of days and we are looking at going to Ottawa for the day tomorrow. We could go to Mont-Tremblant but we've been there so many times and I want a different scenery. If weather allows it, I am currently looking at walking trails where we could go eat our Panera Bread take-out (DH's favourite and not available in Montreal). The Pine Grove looks really nice.
Happy (early) anniversary! August 21st is our wedding anniversary as well (16 years tomorrow for us). Hope you have a wonderful anniversary!
Dinner tonight at a local place we love. It's not fancy but the food is good and the service is excellent. Trying to support "non chain" restaurants in the pandemic. Then we leave tomorrow for 6 nights in rented condos in Sun Peaks and GoldenHappy anniversary to you too! I hope you also have a wonderful day. Any plans?
Flights are so cheap right now for February. I wonder if we will be able to fly safely by then?
You couldn't pay me to cruise or fly right now. I have no issues driving places though. Now that I'm back living in BC (Victoria) I really have no desire to travel for the foreseeable future. There's so much beauty here on the Island. I had kind of put it out of my mind how much I missed the natural beauty here for the 7 years I was living in Ottawa. Now that I'm back I realize there's no place like home (as Dorothy said).
It's interesting, I live in Ottawa and while a lot of it is very flat, I do find there are some very nice outdoor spaces, especially the greenbelt trails and of course going over to Gatineau Park. However, I've never been out to BC (furthest west was Winnipeg, I lived there for 4 years growing up, and furthest North was Churchill, lived there 3 years growing up). I want to go out there but it seems so expensive! Hopefully I will get to take kiddo out west someday.
I agree Ottawa has lots of greenspace which is nice, but honestly it doesn't hold a candle to the Island's natural beauty. Actually, BC in general is stunning. When you say you want to go out here but it seems so expensive, do you mean to visit it is expensive, or to live? I agree it is expensive here if you wanted to buy a house lol. Visiting is not so expensive
I did mean both But living for sure. I'll have to look at a visit, maybe next summer since we'll probably want to stick to Canada.
Honestly, Ottawa is getting pretty pricy in the last few years. You can get a townhouse here in the Victoria area for about the same (or sometimes less) than they are going in Kanata now. I can't believe what they were wanting for towns in Kanata. Unfortunately I sold mine in 2017 for $320K (bought in 2014 for $302K - did loads of improvements so I basically lost money). Now it would easily be $500K or more. Sigh - my luck.
Vancouver (mainland) is ridiculously priced - and honestly it isn't as nice as the Island anyways. It rains there a LOT more than here. Victoria gets 1/2 the rain that Vancouver does. Actually Victoria gets less annual rain than Ottawa - by quite a bit.
that is true, we rent and at this point I can't see ever being able to afford to buy with the way prices are going up. I've been lucky as my landlord hasn't raised my rent very much in the time we've been here, I'm sure he could get a lot more than I'm paying.