For most of January and February, we have mostly been back at work and avoiding going outside in the cold and wet. Vancouver had 30 days straight of rain, this broke a 50 year old record - we don't mind all of the rain though because rain = snow up in the mountains! I wish … Continue reading Canadian winter 2020
After our Xmas ski trip, our holiday was far from over. Ellen and I headed back to Australia for 2 weeks from January 2nd. In the last post we wrote we said our holiday was officially over at the end of the Ski trip - but that was a decoy to throw Louise fully off … Continue reading Quick trip back to AUS 2020
Finally, we got to our last Friday of work for the year! Yahoo This Christmas is our first break outside of Australia, and we headed on a ski holiday with a group of friends to the inner BC area. Saturday morning we woke in standard Justin style at 6am and were on our way to … Continue reading Ski trip & our first white Xmas
Another month done and dusted here in Canada, and another long weekend has come by! It is the Canadian Thanksgiving day which lands on my birthday this year, October the 14th. As we have no Canadian family who is willing to take us in (yet!) we had no thanksgivings festivities planned. So we decided to … Continue reading Olympic National Park, WA
Unlike Australia, there is zero warning signs here of when summer getting close to being over. One day it was warm and sunny, the next I felt like I got hit with an icy baseball bat as I left our apartment building! Top of 12 degrees consistently here at the moment. Since our last hiking … Continue reading Elfin Lakes and the end of summer!
Another loooong weekend here in BC. Sadly, due to the weather, there were showers and storms predicted for Saturday night and Sunday morning, so we couldn't make the most of the long weekend on a big camping trip. Instead, on Saturday, I went and played 36 holes of golf with a few mates! Not real … Continue reading Golden Ears, September long weekend
Now that Ellen & I are finally in a proper routine of work (and Ellen got her first paycheck YAY!), we are really living for the weekends! This weekend, we had a couple of friends from Oaklands visit us - Angus & Anto. I went to primary school with Angus, and Anto is his one … Continue reading Joffre Lakes weekend, 24/08
It has been a while between innings for our blog. We have been a bit lazy, out of reception (Canada's mobile setup is terrible), a bit lost of were we were going to live etc. But finally we have managed to settle in Vancouver, we are sharing an apartment with two great housemates; Aaron a … Continue reading Squamish weekend (West Lion hike) 21/07
6th of May: We have arrived in Toronto, Canada! Hooorayyyyyy. And we can understand everything people are saying - what a bonus! As far as our blog goes, we won’t be doing daily updates for Canada, but we will do a monthly update. Sorry Jan & Lawry, I know you requested a fortnightly update! Our first … Continue reading Our first 2 weeks in CANADA!! (6 May – 23 May)
Day 85 We arrived in Huaraz at around 6am, both Ellen & I slept well for a change. Finally getting the hang of these night buses! We went and checked into our hostel and got in on the free breakfast. We have met up with an American girl Stephanie who we met in Arequipa, she … Continue reading Huaraz, Peru
Justin & Ellen's travels 