The Icefields Parkway is on the agenda today. But, before we set off, you know that feeling when you are on holiday and you force your eyes open when you wake. You feel the need to reach for something to tell you what the time is, even though you don’t give two shakes of a … Read more Canada 2017 – Day 4 – Driving the Icefields Parkway
To we are heading from Banff to Lake Louise. And we’re going on a bear hunt!! Mr Jetlag was still hanging around like a bad smell. I was awake at 3am. Suzanne and Max an hour later. We made no effort to get up and out quickly, so it was gone 8am before we started … Read more Canada 2017 – Day 3 – Banff to Lake Louise
Sunrise, Jet lag and the Banff Gondola. This is pretty much what our day has consisted of. I woke at 2am, Max and Suzanne weren’t far behind at 3am. We (I, to be more accurate) wanted to go to Vermilion Lakes to catch the sunrise. At 6.30 we made our way there, arriving after a … Read more Canada 2017 – Day 2 – A visit to the Banff Gondola
The hustle and bustle of the airport hotel restaurant is hopefully the total opposite of what awaits us when we touch down and eventually get to the Rockies to start our Canada Road Trip. Peaceful lakes, relaxing drives, stunning views and a plethora of wildlife. Before that though, we had the small matter of a … Read more Canada 2017 – Day 1 – Start of our Canada Road Trip
It has been a while since anything cultural was posted here. I thought it was about time that changed, and I shared a Mitai Maori Village experience we had way back in 2012. We were on our honeymoon. An amazing adventure travelling around both of the New Zealand Island, North and South. We spent a … Read more Mitai Maori Village New Zealand – When I was Chief
So we woke up after the first night in out hired VW camper van, with the plan to see Cornwall in a campervan. Weather was better, in as much as it wasn’t raining. See how we fared on Day 1 It was off to the showers for a freshen up and then back for a … Read more Campervanning Cornwall Day 4 – More car trouble