New York, New York! Firstly thanks to my Mum & Dad for our hotel, it has been a great end to our year to have a nice hotel in the middle of Manhattan. Thank you. We have both been to New York before but not together so it has been great to show each other around. We have walked miles! We have taken in all the usual sights including Central Park, 5th Ave, Broadway, Times Square, Madison Square Gardens, Battery Park, the Statue of Liberty, Grand Central Stat...

Rhode Island, we think is the smallest State in the USA. That's not why we chose to visit its capital, Providence, it just happens to look pretty and be between Boston and the Big Apple! As it happens it is pretty and a day is more than enough to walk over to Federal Hill (Little Italy Mafia Town) and to the far side (not worth the walk) then want to leave. We did manage to catch Man U scrape through to the next round of the Champion League even though the Liver...

You can tell when you are back in the US when everything comes with cheese! "Diet coke please", "would you like cheese with that?" Our short flight from Montreal to Boston was only complicated by a problem at US immigration and a little interview with Homeland security in a little office because for some starnge reason, since arriving in Hawaii six weeks ago my fingerprints have changed? It was no major shock that I was then pulled over for a...

Usually when we arrive in a new city it rains but in Montreal we had snow! The flight from Kelowna to Calgary was amazing, we had a great view over the Rockies. We will come back and explore them some other time when the weather is warmer and there isn't so much snow.With the size of Canada and the small amount of time we have left we had no chance of seeing it all. Just the excuse we need for the future! Montreal is a nice place with some amazing architecture ...

We are never travelling on a Greyhound bus ever again! The name 'Greyhound' makes them sound fast, which they are not and sadly they are filled with some strange people! Anyway snobbery aside we made the journey through the mountains from Vancouver to Kelowna with a night en-route in Abbotsford. Sharon & Simon picked us up from the bus station and took us back to their very nice house on a golf course and have kindly put us up over the weekend. Kelowna is lo...