Impressive National Park

Our first major objective on the island is the West Coast and the World Heritage Gros Morne National Park. The scenery is breathtaking-taking with rugged shorelines, fjords and the unique desert-likeもっと詳しく
Tough Fishing Towns

After the West Coast, we head to the centre of the island and its northern coast. They see ice bergs here in spring (unfortunately, we were a little late in the season), and it’s not hard to imagineもっと詳しく
Our First Puffins

We continue across the North Coast of the island. Small cove (and fishing village) one after another. It’s beautiful, but easy to appreciate how tough life must have been. We go on a few coastalもっと詳しく
St John’s

We arrive in the Provincial capital, St John’s, under beautiful weather but increasing wild fire threats. The wind is helping on the coast, but the skies are becoming increasingly smoky. We enjoyもっと詳しく
Tough Country

After St John’s, we have a couple of days before we need to catch the ferry back to the mainland. This gives us time to look at the far East and South coasts of the island. First stop is Cape Spear,もっと詳しく
A New Deadline

Our return to the mainland coincides with advice (finally) from the shipping company of the date to drop the Troopy off in Montreal. We’ve got nine days! So, we go the long way (which, admittedly,もっと詳しく
Quebec City

We find a good campground on the outskirts of Quebec City and spend a full day preparing the Troopy and ourselves for the move across the Atlantic. With this sorted, we then have a couple of days toもっと詳しく
Success!!

We get the Troopy to Montreal with only one minor problem - the handbrake is playing up. At this point it shouldn’t be a problem. We give instructions not to use it (shouldn’t be required) and weもっと詳しく
New York, New York

We have about three weeks to fill in while we wait for the Troopy to clear customs in the UK. Our first stop is New York. While we’ve been here on numerous occasions, the city never fails toもっと詳しく
A New Continent

We arrive in Europe with our flight from New York to Helsinki. We’ve been here before and we only have a day and a half, but it’s enough to re-familiarise ourselves with the city. We do a cityもっと詳しく
Valletta - Part 1

It’s going to take a couple more weeks before we can pick up the Troopy, so we toss around a number of options. We come up with a great solution - Malta! We’ve not been there before (it becomesもっと詳しく
Valletta - Part 2

We’re enjoying Malta so much, and a check of British weather confirms our suspicions, that we decide to extend our time in Malta by a couple of days (and still get to Southampton in time for theもっと詳しく
Gozo

Having spent a week in the capital, we get a hire car and head to Malta’s “second” island, Gozo. It takes over an hour to travel the 50kms to the ferry, which only takes about 30 minutes toもっと詳しく
The Rest of Malta

Our last few days in Malta are spent exploring the main island. Rabat (and the Mdina Fortress) are up there with the best ancient cities in Europe (our view), and the churches, coastline and townsもっと詳しく
Worked out as planned

We depart Malta with the news that the Troopy has arrived in the UK and has been cleared by customs. Fantastic! But we’ve still got a few days to kill before we can pick it up. Fortunately, thisもっと詳しく
No New Flag

We managed to get the faulty handbrake inspected in Portsmouth, but unfortunately, it couldn’t be fixed. We need a new cable, which we’ll have to bring back with us on the next trip. So we headもっと詳しく
A Glimpse of Ireland

The ferry crossing to Ireland is smooth (a good thing without a handbrake) and we arrive at Dublin port in the late afternoon and make our way to the campground on the Western side of the city. Weもっと詳しく
Ist Stop-over

It’s back to Helsinki (again) for our first stop-over on the way home. It’s a bit colder than when we were here a few weeks ago. But it is a lovely city. We stayed in a converted jail!
2nd Stop-over

An 11 hour flight from Helsinki gets us to our second stop-over location - Bangkok. We only have 48 hours in the city - not enough to get over the jet lag, but we do have a good walk around Chinatownもっと詳しく
旅行者You made the ferry! Yay!
旅行者Beautiful place