We started the day off well with a Canadian Classic of pulled pork pancakes and maple syrup. Sounds disgusting but it tasted delicious, although the portion sizes were extreme that they even defeated Richard. Then in a food coma we headed to Granville Island, literally a stones throw away from downtown. On this little island there was a public market that had a lovely food hall with lots of delicious looking treats, although after our feast at breakfast we coul...

Today we let the jet lag beat us and had a lazy morning at the house. In the afternoon we took the bus to Stanley park. We had asked the bus driver to tell us what stop to get off at and we ended up getting off in a very dodgy part of town, that had a lot druggies walking around! We waited here for around 10 minutes before finally getting on the next bus to Stanley park. We hired bikes out for two hours and cycled along the sea wall that goes around the whole par...

Luckily for us the rain has disappeared :) Today we took lots of modes of transport including the bus, train, boat and gondola. We firstly visited the Capilano suspension bride which is a long rickety bridge that goes over a deep canyon. When there's lots of people on it the swaying almost makes you feel sick! After the bridge we took the gondola up Grouse mountain which to our surprise was covered in deep snow! We hadn't expected there to be so much snow at th...

Having spent a lovely time in New Zealand it was time for a change of scenery and on to our next destination...Vancouver, Canada! Our flight left New Zealand at 8pm Friday 4th and arrived in Vancouver at 13.15 Friday 4th! The time difference meant we got to relive the same afternoon twice, and gained time whilst travelling! We are staying with a lovely couple Katy and Mark at their home in Vancouver as part of airbnb, and our room is luxury especially having live...

Auckland is a very busy city and nothing like the rest of New Zealand! We stayed at a camp site on the outskirts of Auckland and suddenly we had four lanes of traffic which was a shock for us as we had been used to driving on single lanes for the last month! We chickened out of city driving and opted to take the bus into the city. When we arrived we started to explore but unfortunately it started to rain heavily. Because we haven't had access to wifi to check t...