{"id":884326,"date":"2025-09-22T15:06:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trafalgar.com\/real-word\/?p=884326"},"modified":"2025-11-03T17:34:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:34:34","slug":"canada-in-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trafalgar.com\/real-word\/canada-in-autumn\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTotally and Utterly Mind-Blowing\u201d \u2013 This Is Canada in Autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The leaves are turning, birds are migrating, snow is falling on the mountains, and pumpkin pie is fresh out of the oven. This is Canada in autumn!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But beyond those well-known seasonal tropes, what is Canada really<\/em> like in autumn? Hear it firsthand from one of our past guests who you may recognize from our 2024 Trafalgar Unlocked Awards<\/a>, Kate. She won the trip of a lifetime to Costa Rica with us, but we’re not here to talk about her overcoming her ziplining fears in the jungle \u2013 we’re here to look back on her trip to Canada, the story of which she told in her Trafalgar Unlocked Awards entry. It’s an incredible tale of solo travel, meeting your best friend, and flying over Banff in a helicopter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kate’s Trafalgar Journey<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

“Having a child at 22, I didn’t really get to travel as much as I would have liked to,” Kate explains. When her youngest daughter went to Canada on a school exchange trip, Kate decided to make the trip across from Australia to see Canada too \u2013 but on her own. “I thought, I’m going to go twin share and try my luck, and ended up meeting this awesome woman called Sharene. We shared a room, and by the time we hopped on a bus the next day we were besties. Everyone couldn’t believe that we didn’t know each other forever.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read on to discover more about why Kate loved Canada in autumn, what she discovered, and her tips for travelers thinking about making it their next trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why did you travel with Trafalgar?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou get to a certain age, and I don’t want to have to be worried about where I’m staying, or where the food’s bad, where I am \u2013 just to have everything looked after. And that’s what I just love about Trafalgar.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone’s there because they want to be adventurous and see the sights. It doesn’t matter whether you’re in your 80s, your 50s or your 30s, everyone’s there with the right attitude. One of the things I loved about the Trafalgar trips I’ve done, is that it breaks down all age barriers.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think happiness brings out the most in people. I was looking back on my photos and everyone that was on the trip, they were all so photogenic and beautiful. And it was because they were just radiating happiness.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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