Claire and Gareth go travelling!
Welcome to our new travel blog
We arrived in Victoria (the capital of British Columbia, despite being significantly smaller than Vancouver) at about 16:00 and donated our tent to the Salvation Army (who seemed a little too pleased to be receiving a wet, dirty tent, that probably couldn’t survive a moderate gust or 30 minutes of steady rain). We then checked …
Continue reading “Victoria, Vancouver and a Canada round up”
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 …
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”
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 …
After a lot of planning and years of anticipation we’re ready for our biggest adventure so far! We’ve done a fair amount of travelling in the past, but now we’re about to head off for just over three months to visit 5 countries and check that the world really is round! We are writing this …
Claire and Gareth go travelling!