On Paths – Old and New

It has been years in the making: reconnecting with my second home country and finally setting foot on soil in the southern hemisphere at the opposite end of my first home country. 

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Day 78 – Wednesday, November 6

Sunrise at Chesterman Beach We decided to start the day on the beach, hopeful to see a spectacular sunrise. The cloud cover, however, was too dense and too low for any...

Day 77 – Tuesday, November 5

North Vancouver to Tofino To catch the morning ferry to Nanaimo, we left North Vancouver at daybreak. The sun had just risen and painted the sky in a deep orange-purple...

Day 76 – Monday, November 4

Lonsdale, North Vancouver Lonsdale Avenue seems to be the centre of town for North Vancouver. Shops, banks, restaurants, everything lines up on this north-south road...

Day 75 – Sunday, November 3

Happy birthday Simon! A lazy rainy November Sunday. Jon and I finalised our plans for visiting Vancouver Island next Tuesday to Saturday: bookings for the ferry...

Days 73 and 74 – Friday and Saturday, November 1 and 2

Seasonal Shopping The plan was, first and foremost, to get over the worst of the jet lag in a couple of days. Thus, other than going shopping at MEC for proper rain gear...

Day 72 – Thursday, October 31, Canada

It was a long 31st of October for me. I left New Zealand at 21:30 and, after a 13+h flight, I arrived in Vancouver at 13:45, both local time. Vancouver greeted me with...

Day 72 – Thursday, October 31

Adieu New Zealand Luggage ready for my next flight, I had a few hours left in Auckland. I spent them in style at the New Zealand Maritime Museum. Our guide was an older...

Day 71 – Wednesday, October 30

A Wet Shopping Day Today was the last full day I had in Auckland, which meant that this was the last opportunity to do some gift and keepsake shopping. I had a...

Day 70 – Tuesday, October 29

Because parking in the city turned out to be a bit complicated, I decided to return the rental car to the airport location two days early. I was glad I didn’t return it...