Pre Christmas Yurt Trip – Part 2

We woke up Sunday morning to a lovely winter scene thanks to the little bit of fresh snow that had fallen overnight. The snow was a fantastic sight because the plan was to go hike some of the trails Algonquin has to offer in the winter. Unfortunately, a couple of our favourites were closed due to bad conditions, but it worked out because that forced us to head to an awesome trail we had never hiked before! If you missed part 1, you can click here to read about our trip so far.

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Pre Christmas Yurt Trip – Part 1

For the last two years we went camping in a yurt at Mew Lake in Algonquin Park for New Year’s (You can read about year 2 here), but this year we didn’t get a Yurt booked because we were adventuring in Iceland and we missed the opportunity. We may have missed our shot at New Year’s, but we still wanted to go winter camping at Mew Lake, so when a different opportunity came up, we jumped on it.

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Bonjour Quebec City

Bonjour! Nous sommes arrivés à Québec City! Ok that’s the extend of my French abilities, aka Google translate helped.  We had a full day planned for Quebec City and it started early.  We knew that parking would not be cheap, or easy to find for that fact, so we headed in to the city and luckily found a spot in the garage across from the Museum of Civilization.  This location was awesome as it would place us right next to the evening fireworks, and close enough to all the main tourist attractions we wanted to see.

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