Wandering Secrets

For those like me who like numbers, here is a summary of the costs for our 52 days crossing Canada.   Accomodation Thanks to our couch-surfing hosts and friends! Transportation I have to apologize I can’t really tell about city buses distance, obviously it’s hard to measure, but sometimes you cannot avoid to pay for […]

I think there’s a lesson in every travel we make. Every place we visit that’s not home has something to teach us. Sometimes it’s something about ourselves, sometimes about life, sometimes about the others. Today I’ve made the biggest realization since the beginning of this trip. I didn’t know in which category I should put this […]

  1,2,3 And the music starts. Slowly, with a folk-indie rhythm, a singer and three guitars. Music is everywhere. It fills your ears, your eyes and it wakes the music lover that sleeps in you. Whether you want to party or to enjoy a meal in a restaurant, music is always around. It’s December and […]

It strikes me how many foreigners don’t know that Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. It also strikes me how many visitors don’t bother going there because Toronto seems to be much more fun. Hence my question : Why are tourists avoiding Ottawa? Avoiding might not be the right term, but some people simply don’t […]

We’ve all heard of Niagara Falls. We’ve all seen pictures and heard stories about them and because of that, they’re not a perfect destination for Wandering Secrets. However, it was one of Guillaume’s dreams to see them so for my ears’ sake I agreed to go there. We had five days to visit Toronto and […]

I wanna go to Trois Rivières, I wanna go to Trois Rivières, I wanna go to Trois Rivières. Sometimes I have these kind of obsessions. I want to go someplace just because it sounds nice or because I saw a picture. Well this time, I saw the town on a map and the obsession began. I wanna go […]

Before coming here I bought a complete guide of the city. Basically there are museums and squares. Not so great when you travel on a budget or when you are looking for a true Quebecois experience. So we asked my hosts, their friends, their family what they usually do during their free time and what […]