Sunday 3rd September 2017 London to Vancouver I’m exhausted. Not tired. Not sleepy. But I can barely stand up. Exhausted. My brain has had enough of thinking, and my body is reaching the point when it says ‘nah, you don’t need to stand up today’. Now you may be wondering why I’m telling you this. Well its mostly so you'll understand that as excited as I am-and I really, really am-certain choices have been made that may seem out of character. Like...

For years I've been bugging my dad to do some travelling and in the past couple of years he has actually taken the time to do so. It didn't surprise me that he soon decided to start planning a bigger trip, what I think of as his dream trip. He told me this would include visiting our family in Ontario, Canada but also involve crossing the border to visit New England during the Fall. After his telling me this in the beginning of 2013 I soon invited myself with hi...

Tuesday 30th September 2014- Mashpee, Cape Cod USA Before leaving home dad and I had talked about catching some sports games while over here. Unfortunately we missed everything by like a day or two. We had hoped to do a Red Sox game as they were actually at home the weekend we arrived in Cape, but typically it was their last home series of this season and it was a 'local' derby. Crazy tickets prices so we had to give it a miss. Dad did get us tickets for a Brui...

My Dream Trip!!!! So a little background to begin with...after my first trip abroad to visit family when I was 17, I realised that I may want to see something of the world. The original two places on this list were New Zealand and Western Canada. I'm not too sure what it is that speaks to me about these places but for 8 years they remained at the top of my destination wish list- in fact, they are still there! In between my first few trips abroad I would always ...

In March 2009 my dad and I took my nan back across to Canada to see the family again. This would be her last trip out there but it was a good one as we got to spend a lot of the time with the family: including the latest additions. Since I had last visited my cousin Kristina had, had 2 children and my cousin Jenn was expecting her first a few months after our visit. Both my dad and nan had visited 2 years before and met Kristina's eldest but this was my first ti...