A quick post about our European trip, in 2024. Lars was in Sweden a month earlier than I, once we convened, we spent some time catching up with friends and family. Lovely company and some lovely meals. We were able to do a bit of sightseeing in southern Sweden, back to one of my favourite […]
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La Palma
We arrived at the beginning of October, and the first two weeks were spent in a blur, in a serious heatwave. All the folks here said they have never experienced such an event. The hot trade wind air over Africa was blowing over the island, which is something that does happen, but usually in the […]
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Gran Canaria
This is the first time we have travelled to this Canary Island. We’re quite familiar with Tenerife, and La Palma, of course, so we thought we would take the opportunity to spend a bit of time here. First impressions – it’s a huge island, with lots of traffic. The island is volcanic and steep, and […]
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Practically reflecting
We’re just back from a month away from home, finding some sun from the wet and grey west coast Canada winter. Travel is always a wonderful opportunity to get perspective on things, our home lives. This little post is a combo of topics from our Canary Islands trip; the practical and some musings. Our primary […]
Tenerife We didn’t have an opportunity to do the hiking we wanted to on Tenerife, the weather was colder and wetter, and snowy atop Mt. Teide, so… We ended up driving from La Orotava to Playa de San Juan. San Juan is on the southwest coast, and is north of the gong show of beaches, […]
The last post was about our travel and destination not being perfect. Two weeks and a day has passed since we left home; and it’s been one week plus a day since we’ve been on La Palma. Wow, I love it here. It’s February, and according to our host, it’s the coldest month of the […]
No, I don’t want to be a complainer, that is not what I do. But, I do love warm weather, and have been seeking, craving, desiring it for a little while now. Travelling from Victoria to Tenerife via London, with each transit, I, (and I’m sure Lars too), we are bidding wet, winter and grey […]
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