Tag: Money

  • How to Carefully Handle Money While Traveling

    How to Carefully Handle Money While Traveling

    Traveling is an adventure that is to be filled with excitement and joy. It is an experience that should be thoroughly enjoyed and lived up to. You don’t want anything to disrupt this experience as it could be a getaway for you or a long-awaited vacation. But wherever in the world you travel to, not…

  • How to explore Vancouver (and Whistler) on a budget

    How to explore Vancouver (and Whistler) on a budget

    Vancouver is the port of entry for many backpackers visiting Canada. It’s no wonder, with a simple to use transit system, nearby destinations including Vancouver Island, Whistler, and even Seattle, there’s plenty to keep you occupied. Vancouver though, despite being beautiful, is notoriously expensive. Not only to live, but also to travel. Between the high…

  • 5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Waste Your Money At Casinos

    5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Waste Your Money At Casinos

    One of my favourite moments during one of my backpacking trips takes place in Australia. Things were looking grim. I had ten dollars to my name, and wasn’t sure what my next game plan was. My options were limited, this was afterall pre-Facebook, pre-Skype and options to talk this through were limited. This was the era of the…

  • Say Goodbye to the Canadian Penny

    Say Goodbye to the Canadian Penny

    Quick post today, as I don’t want to interrupt anyones weekend beer drinking time, including my own. The time has finally come where the penny will be no more. The Conservatives announced that the 2012 budget simply can’t afford to keep pennies in circulation. Pennies ironically cost more than a penny to manufacture, and in…

  • Canadian Money – How to Understand & Identify our Monopoly Bills

    I’ve been stealthily hiding money from myself for a few weeks (which by the way is a passion of mine) and I have finally managed to scrounge up a fair collection of Canadian Bills to showcase here on my mega awesome Canadian Travel Blog. As a plaid wearing Canuck, I’m totally used to hearing all…

  • Spock Five – The new Canadian Currency?

    I stumbled across something which may or may not be the funniest thing I’ve seen on the internet since that little kid on drugs after the dentist – According to the original Spock Five Article at Bacon Magazine, for the last decade or so a dedicated group of individuals have been Spocking their Canadian 5…