Claire and Gareth go travelling!
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After our ferry delays we finally arrived on Vancouver Island to a very soggy evening where we travelled a short way up the east coast to our overnight stop in a little cabin near Qualicum Beach. This is supposed to be a great family beach resort – but we chose staying in the dry over …
Continue reading “Vancouver Island: Made it to the Pacific!”
When Gareth had visited Canada with his family back in 2003, they had stayed with a very lovely family, “The Young Ones”, who had been friends of Gareth’s parents when they came over to teach in Canada for a year in the mid-80s. So it was only fitting for us to pop in and say …
At the end of our drive (a little wetter than the first one) down the Icefield Parkway we travelled West and crossed over into Yoho National Park (which also marks the border between the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia) at lunchtime. We had the next 2 days to cross BC on our way to …
The 227km road linking Banff to Jasper is known as The Icefields Parkway and is one of the world’s most magnificent drives; and we were about to find out why. There are soooo many places to stop on route that it would have probably taken our entire Canadian trip to explore all of them; mountains, …
Continue reading “The Rockies Part 2: The Icefield Parkway, Jasper and Hinton”
With our tent and food loaded we excitedly set off early morning for our adventure into the Rockies. Over the next 2 hour drive the landscape slowly changed from city to rolling hills to dramatic peaks as we entered the south of the national park. We arrived in Banff at 11am, dropped off the car …
We arrived in Calgary on a rainy afternoon (rain was a theme of our stay here). We had two nights to take a deep breath before diving into the Rockies and our first afternoon was mostly devoted to getting ready for the next stage of our trip by buying a second-hand tent, sleeping bags and …
We arrived in Mississauga, a town just outside of greater Toronto in the early afternoon and after a quick grocery shop headed to our basement apartment for the next 4 days. Claire wanted to go for a gentle jog around the neighbourhood, which meant Gareth had to go too to stop Claire getting lost (she …
Leaving the beautiful Laurentians behind, we said goodbye to our hosts and headed back towards Montreal and then towards Quebec City along the St. Lawrence River valley. We arrived in Quebec City in the early afternoon and after a quick bag drop off at our very pretty little hotel (literally “Au Petit Hotel”), we headed …
Having woken up relatively early again we had breakfast as early as we could and went for a quick walk round the local area. It had rained overnight but the colourful street art kept everything looking cheerful. There was quite a big queue at the car hire depot, so it was a while before we …
An early start to the day with a 7am train to Gatwick. Everything went well apart from almost getting on the wrong train at Victoria. We got our first ever seat upgrade on the flight! Just to seats with more legroom but still. Gareth’s in-flight film reviews: Avengers Endgame – 9/10 Only downside to this …
Claire and Gareth go travelling!