This post has been in the making for a while now. But since the year is nearing its end I wanted to make sure to finish it.
It all started with JJ announcing that both her parent AND grandparents want to come to the US to visit friends and see the country. They would start in Chicago but that was...
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Sorry for not sending many updates, but JJ and I have been super busy with trips in the past two months and are just finding time to catch up. I'll start with our trip to Galiano Island, which started with an invite from Jonas and Monette to join them.
They alrady planned on sailing over from Van...
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Sean invited us to join him cfelebrating Egmont Day on this lovely weekend trip in his hometown Engmont. Around 330 people live there and it lies at the north end of the Sechelt Peninsula on the Sunshine Coast.
To get there we took the ferry from Horseshoe Bay with Ma... more...
The last few weeks I have been quite busy with my new job. But now I finally found the time to wrap our last trip. We only had 2 days available leaving Bremen until we had to catch our flight, so some good planning was required to make most out of our short trip. Luckily for us the Lights Festival w...
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I has been 2 years since our last visit to my family back in Germany, so it was long overdue to see them again. And what time could be better for that than Christmas!
For the first week we planned to stay with my family in Göttingen and then we would move north to celebrate New Years Eve with our...
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The year 2016 has been blessed with great weather for wintersports, so we already got a good collection of photos to share.This years pictures are all taken at Cypress Mountain on our snowboarding excursions on the weekend. In case you missed it, here is my post from previous year. Hope you enjoy!...
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Here we are again, this time finishing up our report with the trip to Havanna and Trinidad. As already mentioned in the last post: I was forced to visit the Canadian Embassy in Havanna to get a permit for re-entry to Canada. Reason was that I got the status Permanent Resident, but did not have my Pe...
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Our good friends Jonas and Monette had their get-away wedding in Cuba recently and they invited us to come along. So what else to do than packing our bags and heading out of rainy Vancouver and towards sunshine!
The place we went to is called Melia Las Dunas and is located in Cayo Santa María,...
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This is a short report from my work-trip to Montreal from Oct 16th to 18th. Besides the meetings I had some time to explore the city and nightlife. Sadly without JJ this time, there was just not enough time to make it worthwile.
Here are some impressions from my trip:
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It's summer and with a long weekend coming up, so we thought to create a small adventure for ourselves. The goal was to camp a night or two in our new tent and hopefully see some nice nature where I can hike around and JJ can paint.
Our first idea was to look at the official BC Parks, but reservin...
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