Holiday

We finished last week heading north up the Icefields Parkway from the Athabasca Glacier towards Jasper. In Summer 2024 two large wildfires had swept through the area causing significant damage to the town and many [more…]

Last week, we explored Yellowstone before heading north again, 370 miles deep into Montana. Another National Park is on the agenda for the next few days, Waterton-Glacier.  This one spans the US/Canadian border, the Glacier [more…]

In Part 5, we crossed back over the US border into Montana for an overnight stop in Billings. As any regular traveller knows, one should always pack a universal bathplug for those occasions where the [more…]

After 13 days travelling I was in need of a laundry, which happened to be located in the basement of the hotel that I had just checked-into in Barrie. The following morning I would avail [more…]

We start in New York, having just disembarked the QM2 and taken a ferry across the river to Pier 11/Wall Street, so what now?  The last time I stayed here there were two additional skyscrapers [more…]

Well, the big day has arrived. The neighbour has been asked to keep an eye on the OLND, water turned-off, fridge & freezer emptied and defrosted, bit of oil poured down the sink traps to [more…]

Readers will recall from Part 1 that, for my retirement trip, I had decided to sail across to the eastern seaboard of the US and then travel across to the other side of the continent, [more…]

Having finally become a Puffin-of-leisure in June 2024, I decided that it was time to start making use of my new-found freedom and begin travelling again, something I had previously enjoyed but which was rudely [more…]