It is easy to go to the Festival du Voyageur and come back with loads of pictures of the snow sculptures. But the sculptures alone do not make it a festival.

The sculptures are great as usual, this year none of them collapsed while I was there, that’s already a good start. At the entrance of Voyageur Parc the voyageurs look fierce and a bit grim.

Canadian winters are cold. Don’t start complaining about that, they are supposed to be cold. After all we also have the North Pole on our territory. So when it is cold, and you have been skating on those frozen rivers for hours, what do you want to do?

Warm up! So this year again the City of Winnipeg organised an “Art and Architecture competition” with the theme of “Warming Huts“. Hmmm, let’s get warm together, shall we?

It’s bird time again. For a long time I have now been blogging about activities and the likes, so it’s time to show off some birds again.

By now, you may have a pretty good impression of what we can find in and around Winnipeg as birds. But some of them are completely unknown in Europe so here we go…

With the frigid temperatures we are getting at the moment, it is easy to think that Canada is only made of snow, cold and ice. All inhospitable and unforgivingly hard.

While big parts are mostly always snowy white, there is a hidden beauty to that snow. A beauty we often overlook. So here is a closer look to that white stuff everyone calls “just snow…”