The weather had improved dramatically yesterday. The interesting thing is that the town didn't look so run down in the clear skies. The bright colours of the buildings came through more brightly and some of the faults of the town seemed to fade away in the light. Amazing the difference sunlight makes! We had another walk around the town before heading out. Halifax is only about an hour away from Lunenberg and so the plan was...

Unfortunately the weather never improved the whole day and in fact got worse later in the day. We didn't let that deter us and decided to go for a drive in the surrounding area. We decided to go south and west from Lunenberg and followed the coastline for a about 10-15kms. It is very pretty along the coast even though it doesn't feel like you're driving next to the ocean as there are no waves at...

Our flight from Montreal to Halifax left at 11am. The airport was pretty quiet with no one at check in and very few people at security as well. We go through all of those very quickly and we found ourselves at the gate by 9am with more time to kill before our flight departed. Montreal is an interesting place in that everything is in French first. Everyone talks French to you and only when you clearly...

We have eventually arrived in Canada. Unfortunately everything didn't go smoothly but we have arrived. We got to Heathrow at around 3:45pm and when we were clearing security we heard that the flight was going to be delayed for an hour. That hour turned into 2 hours and then eventually 3 hours. fortunately we were in the BA lounge and so we were comfortable at least while we waited. They have a new 'build your own...

Yesterday evening we departed from Cape Town heading for Canada. This was the trip we should have done in June/July 2020 but obviously the pandemic intervened. We are grateful to be able to reschedule it to now. When I say 'We', it is just 4 of us - me, H and then my son and daughter-in-law (S & K). We are flying via London and so we had the day today in London. The flight over...