It's horrible. But honestly it really is. Obviously, this is just from my perspective, as I am stuck in an unfamiliar country, isolating in a tiny hotel room with food that is brought to me at inconsistent times at best and is nonexistent at worst. Since I have entered the UK, I'm pretty sure I've …
Traveling during a pandemic
After a trying year (and a bit), traveling is a nice distraction. However, traversing through the airports is certainly a little more stressful that it used to be. On top of the extra precautions that must be taken, there is a lot more planning that must be done before you even leave the country. Now, …
A snapshot of India
I had never been to India and an invitation to participate in a conference at IIT Gandhinagar in the Gujarat was too great an opportunity to pass by. Centred on Ahmedabad and the Gujarat's capital city, Gandhinagar, attending the conference gave me a tiny window into the culturally and environmentally diverse country that is India. …
Australia adventure part 2
Well, its been a week since my last posting and tomorrow we head off back to Canada. I miss my kids, but I'm reluctant to say goodbye to this wonderful part of the world. It has been a busy week. We arrived back in Adelaide on Monday evening, quite late after our week on the …
Sunny South Australia
Here we are, a mere eight months after we said our fond, slightly misty eyed, farewells to Adelaide, once again in beautiful South Australia. This time around, there are only two of us. Sadly, because of the school year and the nature of the trip, we had to leave Rowan and Pippa (our erstwhile and …
Newfound Land, twelve years later.
Sitting here in Toronto Pearson airport, it's funny to think how much; after having spent a week on the beautiful great island of Newfound Land, I find myself thinking back on the joys of travelling here again. It's been a little over a decade and it's just as wild and aesthetically stunning as ever (not …
A walk in Newfoundland
By Pippa On the 26th of July we went for a walk in Port Rexton on the Skerwink trail. We started at around eleven. The trail was supposed to take only one hour, but it took me way longer than that because, me being me, I stopped every five minutes to take a picture. And …
A Newfoundland embrace
By Rachel It had to happen sometime... Last week we arrived in St John's, our penultimate destination before returning home. Closing the loop of our round-the-world adventure was a bit tough to accept in some ways - it's been such a fantastic year - but we couldn't have chosen a better place to reintroduce ourselves …
A Tour Around Iceland
By Pippa On Monday July 16th we went on a golden circle tour around Iceland. The first stop on our tour was a crater lake. The crater was created when a magma chamber under the ground emptied out and collapsed in on itself. Now there's a beautiful blue lake in the middle of the crater. …
Magnificent Isle of Man
By Neil Up until a couple of weeks ago, I had only visited the Isle of Man twice before. The last time was in the late 1980's and it was memorable only for how miserably cold and damp it was. The rain never stopped from the moment I landed until, well, I guess, sometime long …
A year of discovery 