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…

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…

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. Even Jon’s rec centre is…

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, accommodation, the Hot Springs,…

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…

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…

Today was mostly a day of driving. Leg 1: Toronto to Whitby …to my friends Joy and Fredrick, who I know from my very early days in Canada in the…

This time around, the flight to Toronto went without any hiccups. No long line-ups at security check. There even was enough time for what has become, over the years, a…

Happy birthday Mama! Jet lag can have its advantages: I got to experience how the city wakes up. Toronto has become so – tall! High-rises wherever you go, glass-clad such…

An early morning again, which was ideal for a visit to the St. Laurence Market. Fresh produce, fish, meat, cheese, spices, bread and baked goods, flowers, honey, maple syrup, Kozlik’s…