Category: Marco Polo

Today, when we woke up, we were still in Sept Iles; the ropes had held fast and the ship hadn’t drifted off into the sea. I was on tour this afternoon, so I spent the morning catching up on some online student work and publishing the newsletter (which was half a month late). Unfortunately, I had to be on the...

In the original intinerary, today was supposed to be a full sea-day. About a week ago, however, they announced that the initerary had been changed slightly, meaning that we would be arriving in Sept Iles earlier… this afternoon instead of early tomorrow morning. The knock-on effect of this is that I’ve lost a class, while Barbara the Card and Peter...

Today, we arrived in Saguenay, in the provence of Quebec, and boy, were they happy to see us!   It was like visiting some long lost and very dear friends… who you never even knew you had. It turns out the good people of Saguenay have been waiting a long time to see us; the last time they saw the...

Today has been another day on the St. Lawrence River. This time, however, since we left Monreal this morning, we’ve been heading in an Easterly direction, towards our next port-of-call, Saguenay, which is where we’re due to arrive tomorrow. Being on the move means I’ve had classes this afternoon, both of which were well attended and seemed to go down...

Today, we arrived in Montreal, the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec, the second largest city in Canada and the eighth largest city in North America. It is also the second largest primarily French speaking city in the world, after Paris. With no tour escorting duties again, my plans were pretty much the same as for Quebec; a...