http://canada-travel-worldwide.com almost everything about travel for Canadians... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:38:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Top 10 Reasons to buy Travel Insurance There are hundreds of reasons that could force you to seek emergency medical treatment while travelling or that could cause you to cancel your trip or return home early. To demonstrate the importance of purchasing travel insurance, here are some examples of what could go wrong ... http://canada-travel-worldwide.com/2010/03/top-10-reasons-to-buy-travel-insurance/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed I have got to say, the best informational clips about Canada are not coming from our own official Canadian tourism board... but from our neighbours to the south of us!! I've seen better put together - didn't have to take my taxes for it - promotional pieces from NBC over ... http://canada-travel-worldwide.com/2010/02/the-view-up-on-grouse-mtn-in-north-vancouver/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed I saw this for the first time today. Tom Brokaw did a piece just prior to the opening ceremonies at the 2010 Vancouver winter Olympic games. I was glued to CTV so I missed the NBC airing of it. This morning the video on YouTube, had roughly around 22,000 views and ... http://canada-travel-worldwide.com/2010/02/an-americans-view-on-canada/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed I am happy to welcome Ruth from Mom's Musings to my blog today to talk about a lesson learned by her son on his last mission's trip... My son, 13 at the time, went on a mission's trip (humanitarian aide) to Guyana with a church group affiliated with our church.  They ... http://canada-travel-worldwide.com/2010/02/never-pet-the-market-cat/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed I'm sure I've mentioned this before.... but this IS one of my favourite places to visit! If I could spend a weekend in Charleston, South Carolina each and every summer, I would! I first fell in love with this city during the summer of 1998 when my hubby and I took my ... http://canada-travel-worldwide.com/2010/02/a-trip-through-charleston/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed I am a member of care2, an online community for healthy and green living, human rights, etc. In the middle of last month I received an email from a member regarding the 7 most toxic places to live on Earth. As a person who loves this planet and loves to travel ... http://canada-travel-worldwide.com/2010/02/the-7-most-toxic-places-to-live/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed For this weeks Thursday Thirteen I interviewed a friend of mine. She has been a travel agent for as long as I've known her, she works for Travel Professionals International. I wanted to know what her top 13 travel tips were, so she shared them with me and now I'm ... http://canada-travel-worldwide.com/2010/01/expert-travel-tips/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed My heart sank as I heard the news that another earthquake rocked Haiti this morning. 6.1 on the Richter Scale. I'm told that that is 10'x lower than the one that destroyed much of Port-Au-Prince just a week ago but still big none-the-less. I can't imagine the panic that consumed ... http://canada-travel-worldwide.com/2010/01/haiti/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed [caption id="attachment_59" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="walked in... wheeled out"][/caption] Remember what this picture is from??.... This morning I emailed (because there is no number listed on their website) the hospital that I visited back in Pigeon Forge, TN way back in August 2008 to get this "outstanding bill" figured out. They sent me back ... http://canada-travel-worldwide.com/2010/01/an-end-to-the-drama/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed 13 places I've been worldwide (Canada excluded) or want to go to! 1. United States ~ I've been to almost every State, with the exception of Alaska (which is odd since I worked for an Alaskan cruise line for 4 summers as a teen), Vermont & Maine. My favourite was Hawaii ... http://canada-travel-worldwide.com/2010/01/thursday-13-places-visited/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed