Canada

One thing we were looking forward to when we'd decided to move to Canada was the possibility of exploring a whole new continent. However, now that we have been living here for six months, we found out that this is an immense huge country and that travelling in Canada only isn't that easy. Until so far we have seen the countryside of Toronto, the Niagara Falls and Timmins. Travel distances here are immense and travelling by train is very expensive as well.

Quite often European people tell us that they know someone living in Canada. They forget that Canada is the fourth largest country in the world and that someone living in Vancouver, means actually the same as the distance from Helsinki to Dubai. Not really our neighbor.

Actually, we never imagined these distances to be so huge either. Our plan is to start our discovery of Canada by first exploring the province of Ontario, which on it's own is already bigger than Finland.

Here are some places we definitely want to visit:

Ottawa
The capital of Canada and the second largest city in Ontario.

Montreal
The largest city in Quebec and primarily French speaking.

Winnipeg
The capital of Manitoba and the hometown of Juha's closest classmates.

Vancouver 
Seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia.

The Canadian Rockies (Canadian segment of the North American Rocky Mountains)
Hiking tour through Banff and Jasper National Parks.

Eastern Canada (New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Novia Scotia and Prince Edward Island)
The maritime provinces with dunes, bays and fresh fish.