We arrived in Canada five months ago, with the intention of settling down and resting our weary travellers legs for a while, finding work and re-boosting the bank accounts. Conveniently for us, Aidan's good mate from high school, Marty, had been living in Banff, a popular tourist town in the Rocky Mountains, for the past four years. We crashed at his place for a few weeks while Aidan scoured the country online for an Engineering job. Without much luck, we decide...

The first thing we did when we arrived in Manhattan Island, New York was order a pizza. We went for a medium mushroom and broccoli special, rather than a large, as we'd heard they make their pizzas big in New York. Out came a pizza as big as a car tyre! We double checked that it was a medium, paid in quarters, dimes and greenbacks and headed back home to enjoy it with Jess's Uncle Peter. We were lucky enough that Jess's Uncle happens to rent an apartment in Cent...

After a teary 1am goodbye at the airport, we're on our way across Europe and the Atlantic towards New York City! It's the next leg of our journey and we're feeling pretty excited. Having said that, the two great weeks we spent catching up with friends and exploring this Pandoras box of a country went by like the wind. Liat rode the bus with us from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, although she was running late to a yoga class and had to organise for a friend to meet us at...

We couldn't have left Israel without visiting Jerusalem, so it was convenient that a few of our Israeli friends are actually studying at the University there! It was surreal - standing at the tram stop and then suddenly being greeted by our friends Shachar, Bar and Almog. Liat joined us a bit later and the conversations flowed like only a weekend had past since Cambodia! Jerusalem is, without a doubt, the most interesting and intriguing city we have visited yet....

We've just spent an incredible but all-too-short four days gallivanting around the northern Israeli region of Galilee with our good friend Roni. We first met Roni in Cambodia and it didn't take long to see what a great person she is. Being a massage therapist (as well as a social worker) she can also be thanked for inspiring Jess's newfound interest in massage. On our way, we detoured through Akko, a coastal Arabic town not far from Roni's place. Akko is one of ...