Vancouver bound
2024年4月25日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
Jeremy and I realised that this is our fourth international trip together, and in fact our fourth continent which we will travel to together. Call it our honeymoon :) We will try blogging this tripもっと詳しく
Vancouver Day 1
2024年4月25日, カナダ ⋅ 🌧 7 °C
We were greeted by cold wintery rain, and this is how it is forecasted to stay for the next week. I wasn't so enthusiastic to embark on Jeremy's cycling tour of Vancouver as a result and we ended upもっと詳しく
Sea to Sky
2024年4月26日, カナダ ⋅ 🌙 10 °C
Today we travelled from Vancouver up the Sea to Sky Highway through Whistler and ended up in Kamloops. The language of the first peoples is a real head scratcher so I took a picture for anyone who canもっと詳しく
Lake Kamloops
2024年4月26日, カナダ ⋅ 🌙 8 °C
Thank you for driving all day Jeremy. You have earnt your spot overlooking the sunset at Lake Kamloops.
Kamloops parkrun and a long drive!
2024年4月27日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 4 °C
We found a great little parkrun this morning! And by "found", I researched the location, figured out the best overnight stop with the prettiest parkrun, and booked a hotel across the street.もっと詳しく
The less treacherous part of the day
2024年4月28日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 1 °C
Other than the difficulties faced on the mountains today, we took advantage of the sun for taking photos in the morning and evening around Banff and Lake Louise. Banff and the Bow River are stunningもっと詳しく
Learning at Lake Louise!
2024年4月28日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 1 °C
Just a short post while I wait at the bar for Tonya to finish skiing down the mountain. So we spent some time on the learning slope, where Tonya gave a valiant effort in teaching me the subtle art ofもっと詳しく
Sunshine and snow - part 1
2024年4月29日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 0 °C
Today was another trip down memory lane from ten years ago for me and a full day of new Canadian experiences for Jeremy. Our day began at Sunshine Ski Village where the green ski runs were a bit moreもっと詳しく
Sunshine and snow - part 2
2024年4月29日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ -1 °C
After skiing we drove to see the memorising lakes at Kananaskis which are one of my favourite places in the world. It started snowing quite heavily on our hike to the lakes but we trotted along, bearもっと詳しく
Winter isn't over
2024年4月30日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ -2 °C
The weather did a 180 degree flip from the sunshine yesterday, so we started out today by getting another photo at the Banff sign. This town really looks magical in the snow, but the trees up in theもっと詳しく
The Icefield Parkway
2024年5月1日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 1 °C
So today was full of rollercoasters. Started with planning the trip up the Icefield Parkway from Lake Louise to Jasper, which was incredibly scenic and beautiful... However with no chargers andもっと詳しく
Back to Vancouver
2024年5月2日, カナダ ⋅ 🌙 11 °C
Nothing overly exciting to report, just another lengthy drive, starting with the incredibly scenic Mr Robson National Park, where we spotted a couple of cuddly black bears on the roadside, then downもっと詳しく
Some stairs
2024年5月3日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
To make up for sitting in the car all day yesterday, we spent today seemingly climbing endless stairs. We started off with a warmup at Lynn Canyon. It's the smaller version of the more famous Capilanoもっと詳しく
Too many stairs
2024年5月3日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
On to the main event! The climb up to Grouse Mountain on the Grouse Grind. 800 metres of vertical elevation over about 2.5km. It's basically a combination of Nellies Glen and Furber Steps (If youもっと詳しく
The Bloedel Conservatory
2024年5月3日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
We finished up the day by heading back to the Bloedel Conservatory, this time going inside and seeing all the various exotic plants, flowers and birds.
Central parkrun Burnaby
2024年5月4日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
So today was our second Canadian parkrun. We ended up choosing Central parkrun in Burnaby, with no regrets! It's a lovely 2 lap trail through a forest, with squirrels, geese and ducks hanging around.もっと詳しく
Vancouver Marathon Expo and gatecrashing
2024年5月4日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
After Parkrun this morning, we had a fairly relaxed day. We collected Jeremy's bib for the marathon tomorrow, together with thousands of other runners at the convention centre, and Jeremy posed forもっと詳しく
Vancouver Marathon
2024年5月5日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
From Tonya's experience - I was all geared up and ready to ride a Mobi (share) bike in the rain and looked quite ridiculous compared to all the other spectators. However, the bike worked out well andもっと詳しく
After the marathon
2024年5月5日, カナダ ⋅ 🌧 10 °C
After Jeremy's recovery cake from Breka Bakery (our new favourite chain), we went home and my rain gear was put to the test. To reward himself after a hard day's work, Jeremy suggested we go to aもっと詳しく
Butchart Gardens
2024年5月6日, カナダ ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
After many recommendations, a visit to the famous Butchart Gardens was in order.
Not much more to be said!
To Vancouver Island
2024年5月6日, カナダ ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C
So after our last night in Vancouver, we headed to Tssawassen, for the ferry to Vancouver Island. While waiting for the ferry (and the car to charge) we did some window shopping at a gigantic outletもっと詳しく
Malahat Skywalk
2024年5月7日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
Had a quick little trip to the Malahat Skywalk, which had views all the way to Vancouver, and to the Olympic Peninsula, where we'll be heading tomorrow.
It's about 800 metres to the top where weもっと詳しく
Quick tour of Victoria
2024年5月7日, カナダ ⋅ 🌙 10 °C
Our quick tour of Victoria involved taking photos of the outside of Hatley Castle (which was being used as a film set and the large film crew were a bit protective of us taking photos) andもっと詳しく
To the US of A
2024年5月8日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
We started our day with a breakfast in the dining room of our Fawlty Towers style hotel. I thought about going to cook my own egg (as one of Fawlty's guests had done) but we did get our breakfastもっと詳しく
US beaches and lodge
2024年5月8日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 10 °C
We continued our drive down the west of the Olympic Peninsula stopping at the beach at La Push and Ruby Beach. This coastline has a huge amount of driftwood and enormous trees on the beaches, so itもっと詳しく



































































































































































































































This is lovely 😍 Enjoy 😊 [Mum]
Looking forward to traveling virtually with you. I loved that area of our amazing world when I was there just a few years ago. [Mum P]
旅行者Great to see the mums on here 💕