Trekking Aussies

We left our 'home away from home´ i.e. Canada and began our transition of a local back to being a tourist. It felt a bit weird leaving Canada after being there for so long. Despite everyone warning us about the Greyhound buses we had a free ticket and so we wanted to take advantage of it plus we knew it would be nothing like the buses that were about to come. In Seattle we enjoyed the Pike Place Markets and for once it wasn´t raining in Seattle. We only planned on a night stop over but due to some planning problems...i.e. none! The bus south was full so we were forced to stay an extra night. Another bus ride and we were in San Fransisco. What a place! It was all of what we had been ... read more

Hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year. We spent Christmas Eve having a few drinks at the pub after work and then Christmas Day we had a bit of a sleep in and enjoyed opening our pressies from family. Instead of going boarding we hit the hot tub at our place with another couple (Emma and Brent). We enjoyed relaxing in there for a few hours drinking our traditional Swedish Christmas Drink. That night we went over to a friends place and we all had Christmas Dinner together and yes it was a truly white one, it did snow! We had some Aussie visitors for New Years- Laura, David and Katie all joined us for for a few days. It was so great to have them here to help us celebrate. We had ... read more

Ok so we have been pretty slack in updating the blog- sorry! Here is a bit of an update leading on from the last entry: After enjoying our time east it was time to head back to the west. We had a couple of days in the big smoke in Toronto. Whilst it was good to see, neither of us were overly impressed by Toronto as it is just one BIG city but didn’t have too much appeal for us (unless maybe we were loaded and could go out on a big shopping spree, which for the record we aren’t). We experienced some temperatures that made us feel we were back home 31 C and so humid! Whilst in Toronto we didn’t do too much apart from wander around, go to an amateur comedy night and ... read more

We arrived into Victoria after finishing up work in Vancouver. We ended up staying almost a week to give Karl’s feet a chance to heal before embarking on our cycling tour. We did a few touristy things (with Karl hobbling along) like visiting Government Building for BC, which was pretty interesting; visited the amazing Butchart Gardens; wandered around the village like atmosphere, it’s a really pretty city. In amongst playing tourists we also had to prepare for the cycling trip by purchasing tent and camping gear, organizing bikes and finalizing our route. We left Victoria, all loaded up, in the rain and early in the morning to beat the traffic! We headed off on the Galloping Goose, which was originally the first train network in BC, but now as no longer active has been converted into ... read more

Well we are still in Vancouver but we have moved to ANOTHER place! This time we should be here for two months (up until August 13th). It is a one bedroom apartment still in downtown but in the west end. It is a nicer aspect than the last place and it has some views out to the water and sunset which is very nice. Still expensive but as we mentioned in our last email it has been really difficult to find share or cheaper accomodation. Apparently the rental market is similar to back there- 97% occupancy rate. We experienced a bit of drama prior to moving in however, which was not funny at the time but was the next day! The night before we were to move again we tucked into our temporary bed early (9.30pm) ... read more