Travel

Having grown up in a family that enjoys travel, and having attended a French language elementary school in Quebec, Canada; I gained an appreciation for diverse languages and cultures.

Kennell family trip to France
2012










Not surprisingly, I found myself in the last year of high school among a small group of students travelling to Ecuador in partnership with Canada World Youth. Each of us was billeted with a family in a small town on the Pacific coast of Ecuador. We fundraised in their community and even built washroom facilities for a school for the disabled.

 The group in an Ecuadorian school

Through this experience I also developed a love for the Spanish language, and a serious travel bug. This experience led me to enroll in a double major of Spanish and Political Science at Acadia University. And, as a result, I completed a year of study abroad, attending the Universidad de La Rioja in Logroño, Spain.

Acadia contingent receiving our diplomas from the language course at La Rioja







The year abroad was full of travel. Barely a weekend was spent at home during the first semester and an extra long winter break made for some great trips. At the end of my year in Logroño I wasn't ready to leave, but ensuring myself I'd be back made it all the easier.

And so... a year and a university degree later I've returned. Living in Europe has once again given me some amazing opportunities to travel.

The following are the places I've visited, and although plentiful, my list of places to visit in the future is much longer!

• Austria
• Salzburg
• Belgium
• Ghent
• Brussels
• Canada
• New Brunswick
• Nova Scotia *
• Ontario
• Prince Edward Island
• Quebec *
• Cuba
• Guardalavaca
• Czech Republic

• Prague
• Ecuador
• Guayaquil
• Puerto Lopez
• Quito
• France
• Aix-en-Provence
• Annecy 
• Arles 
• Cauterets
• Cannes
• Colmar
• Grenoble
• Marseilles
• Nice
• Obernai
• Paris
• St Jean de Luz
• Strasbourg
• Germany
• Baden-Baden
• Berlin
• Freiburg 
• Karlsruhe
• Lahr
• Munich
• St. Peter
• Hungary
• Budapest
• Italy
• Amalfi 
• Cinque Terre
• Florence
• Herculaneum 
• Milan
• Naples
• Pisa
• Pompeii
• Rome
• Venice
• Monaco
• Netherlands
• Amsterdam
• Maastricht
• Portugal
• Cascais
• Lisbon
• Spain
• Barcelona 
• Bilbao 
• Burgos
• Burriana
• Calafell
• Cáceres
• Cuenca
• Granada
• Huelva
• Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
• Lanzarote 
• Logroño *
• Madrid *
• Magaluf
• Malaga
• Manacor
• Montemayor de Pililla
• Palma de Mallorca
• Pamplona
• Punta Umbría
• San Sebastian
• Salamanca
• Santander
• Segovia
• Sevilla
• Sóller
• Toledo
• Valencia
• Valldemossa
• Zaragoza
• Switzerland
• Geneva
• Zurich
• United Kingdom
• Alton
• Brighton
• Cardiff
• Gibraltar
• Jersey (Channel Islands) 
• London*
• Nottingham
• Winchester
• United States
• California 
• Florida
• Maine
• Massachusetts
• New Hampshire
• New York
• North Carolina
• Pennsylvania
• Vermont
• Vatican City State

* Places I've lived. 

The Kennell family got rather competitive on our last trip... 

Oh and I won! 

(April 5, 2012)