El and I have made the difficult decision to head back to Australia for good in early January 2021 - it will be a super bittersweet ending to our time in Canada but we are looking forward to catching up with family and friends; and getting some much needed sun on these arms! We felt … Continue reading Our last hurrah in the Rockies, Oct 2020 →

Ellen flew back into sunny Vancouver on Friday afternoon - yay! She said it rained the entire drive to Whitehorse to catch her plane and after an hour or so on the plane back to Vancouver the weather got so much nicer. I picked her up from the airport and we went straight to Spanish … Continue reading More summer antics (Ellen is back!), Aug 2020 →

It is the middle of August and the peak of the Canadian summer, unfortunately Ellen has been sent up to Watson Lake, Yukon, for work for three whole weeks! Our housemates are also away on holiday so I am living the bachelor lifestyle for the next while. I have been given clear instructions on how … Continue reading The Peak of Summer, Canada 2020 →

Now that Canada has the COVID situation well under control, they have recently removed the travel restrictions around British Columbia - as soon as this was announced Ellen and I booked our leave for 2 weeks to travel around the beautiful northern BC! Below is a lazy map of the route we took around the … Continue reading Northern British Columbia road trip! →

Still feeling like we have a little bit of cabin fever we planned a weekend trip away up to Lake Lovely water, which is a little lake on the Western side of Squamish. This time however, we splurged a little and booked a helicopter to take us up the lake and skip the 5 hour … Continue reading Lake lovely water weekend →

For Ellen's work, she was luckily assigned to a project near a small town in BC called Kaslo. Ellen spent an initial 2 weeks out there, spamming me with a load of mountain and wildlife pictures which made me super jealous! Luckily, Ellen had to go out there for one more week in middle of … Continue reading Mini work holiday – The Kootenay’s! →

Once we got back to Vancouver after our Colorado Ski trip we got another Whistler ski session in. We now realise this was our last for the season 😦 We had a great day out, with some early morning powder and we even went and found an ice cave! We also recently learnt about a … Continue reading Canada, March-May 2020 →

As if we haven't had enough time off work already - we decided to embrace the Winter and take off for a ski trip to Colorado! On Wednesday we woke up at stupid o'clock to catch out 6am flight out of Vancouver. Nothing a little bit of Tim Horton's coffee can't fix. We met Harry … Continue reading Colorado ski trip, Feb 2020 →