My new daily challenge game is called “Get Rid of One Thing Every Day”. It doesn’t have to be big, and shouldn’t include bicycle helmets ideally. I just go through my panniers, select something that I don’t REALLY need, or can be cheaply replaced, and BAM! It’s gone. I’ll pass things on where possible, recycle […]
After getting up at the crack of dawn for breakfast, and saying a temporary goodbye to Gill (I’m back this way on Day 2 of my trip), Stewart and I rolled out on to the deserted streets together for the short ride west to Tsawassen’s ferry terminal. The eagle-eyed might have spotted the slightly odd […]
Today was a free day with Gill & Stewart and a list of things I’d left to the last minute to get, including fuel for my stove which you obviously wouldn’t want to fly with! I rebuilt my bike over a coffee… …and we set out for the stores. After great success with buying things […]
My flight landed at Calgary and we all waited on board for an hour before the last leg to Vancouver. Flying over the Rockies was stunning. They’ve had a recent late snow shower and were looking pretty awesome and wintry to be honest. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t feel a little frisson […]
There’s a new-ish e-visa system for Canada. You apply online well in advance and then stand around worrying at check-in whilst they tell you there’s a problem and that your visa hasn’t been registered. Except it has, so after waiting a bit longer they give you a boarding card after all! Then you take your […]
Don’t know when I’ll be back again, but hopefully sometime around the end of August. It’s been a long day of getting everything together, but I’m just about there. We went to play to our friend Andrew Knowlman at his care home in Kings Langley, Herts last night with his lovely daughter Valentina, who is Susie’s […]
A belting new entry in the Signs That Are Funny section – this just now from my dear Dad, spotted in their home village of Linton, Cambridgeshire.
The flagpole on my bike has been looking a bit bare. I’ve had just the Canadian flag, and not a very big one, with lots of space un-used. That has all changed now with two surprise gifts. Firstly, Susie hadn’t told me that she had been making a small SOS Children’s Villages flag, ingeniously using […]
Firstly, a big warm welcome to all those of you who have just recently started following this blog. I realise that lots of us haven’t necessarily followed blogs before, which makes me even more glad to have you along for the ride. If you haven’t yet discovered the “follow” button in the bottom right of […]
With just 2 weeks to go before my first day pedalling across Canada, I’ve found myself looking back at how I reached this point. I first started thinking about this trip during one of our regular holidays with family in Toronto, long before either of our lads had even taken their GCSE’s, and now Sam […]
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