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We’re on the move again
Hi all After 3 years back in the UK we’re off on another adventure again, this time to The Netherlands. If you’d like to follow our adventures over the next two years, head over to...
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The end of our Long American Holiday
So, after getting back from Canada I’m in full packing mode again. This time there is more to pack than usual – our whole house! That’s right. After 20 months living in Houston and adventuring in North...
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The end of our Long American Holiday
So, after getting back from Canada I’m in full packing mode again. This time there is more to pack than usual – our whole house! That’s right. After 20 months living in Houston and adventuring in North...
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Arizona – Sedona (May 2013)
And finally I’ve got round to writing about the last part of our trip to Arizona back in May 2013… We drove from the Grand Canyon knowing we only had a couple of days of holiday left. We were already...
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Houston Arboretum and Nature Center and turtles
We visited the Houston Arboretum the other month and we were surprised to find such a huge wilderness so close to Houston city centre. Following some very dry years in Houston recently, what should be...
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The girls have finally gone Texan
We took a trip to the legendary Cavender’s this afternoon. For those not familiar with it, it’s a huge shop filled with Western boots and clothing (or cowgirl clothes as the girls prefer to call it)....
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Sea canoeing, sea stars, seals but no whales
Yesterday we hired a canoe again to explore a little further along the coast and to make it out to one of the smaller islands where some other people we had met had seen seals and whales. The girls...
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Exploring Galiano in a Smart car
Today we borrowed a couple of Smart cars so we could explore a little further than the girls are able to walk or scoot. We needed 2 as they only have 2 seats, so we set off in convoy. Our first stop...
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Sea creatures and canoes on Galiano Island
As soon as breakfast was finished yesterday, the girls raced off to the beach to climb over the rocks and see what sea creatures had been deposited in the rock pools overnight. There were fewer hermit...
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Galiano Island and Orcas
We caught the ferry from Tsawwassen to Galiano on Sunday afternoon. Just as the boat was about to leave the dock someone ran down from the top deck to say that there was a pod of orca whales just...
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Vancouver – Granville Island and Grouse Mountain
Our last two days in Vancouver were a little more laid back than the first few, which is good news for the girls as they didn’t have to walk or scoot nearly as far! On Friday it was difficult to get...
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Vancouver Aquarium and Stanley Park again
Yesterday we spent the morning at the amazing Vancouver Aquarium. The girls love everything sea-creature related and have quite a bit of knowledge about them (thank you Octonauts!) so they had been...
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Matchbox Twenty at Cynthia Mitchell Woods Pavillion
Last week we went up to the Woodlands, just North of Houston, to see one of my favourite bands, Matchbox Twenty. We arrived just as the support act, the Goo Goo Dolls started and we rushed to our...
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Children understanding how lucky they are
The girls and me were walking through Downtown Vancouver this afternoon having just had a delicious lunch with my Lovely Husband and brought some new clothes in the Gap sale. We walked past a young man...
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Vancouver – Science World and ice cream
Today the girls and I spent a full day at Science World in Vancouver, from opening until 4pm when the Little One crumpled into a heap and declared that she couldn’t walk another step (hardly surprising...
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Vancouver – a beautiful city
Vancouver is a very clean and beautiful city. It is also a rare thing in a fast growing city: it is surrounded by majestic mountains (that are snow-capped in the Winter) and the sea so it seems that...
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Beautiful Vancouver (or how I jogged 9 miles today!)
We arrived in Vancouver on Sunday afternoon. It’s a beautiful city that my Lovely Husband and me visited 10 years ago (almost exactly) for 3 days and loved it. We felt so at home in that short time...
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Cracking a Geode
We visited the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences (HMNS) at the weekend and it’s always a trip we enjoy. The Big One wanted to see the paleontology exhibit and also the new Ancient Egypt hall but we...
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Short break in transmission – but we’re now back in the US
You may have noticed a break in transmission in the last 7 weeks or so. I didn’t even finish telling you about our adventures in Arizona (I will do that…). The girls and I have had a little break...
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The Grand Canyon and Monument Valley
We could have stayed longer in Scottsdale but the Grand Canyon called. The drive took us through the semi arid desert, Sonora. The landscape changed from cacti filled desert as we drove higher and it...
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