So, after much a do, here we are! 15 goats, 100 chickens, 60 ducks, 3 cows, 1 Bodmin Moor pony, 2 dogs and 1 cat make up the smallholding that we are calling home for the moment. We’ve been here three weeks and are learning huge amounts every day. From milking goats (you will remember…
Our practice at being Workaways for my Aunt and Uncle has been great fun and my Aunt is very happy with the lack of weeds and the creation of a wall and all sorts of bits and pieces. We’re in sheep country so the lambs are leaping about and their mums are getting worried. The…
It’s been a long time, hasn’t it? I can barely remember how to do this blog stuff – the background of it still feels VERY technical and complicated to me and much beyond my limitations….similar to the background of life. Speaking of life, we are now getting slowly back out to where we want to…
In the blogosphere, I’ve written pretty much all the posts on our travels in Canada and the US and we’ve just got back. In reality, we have been back since early August! We spent a couple of weeks in France swimming in rivers with our dog and catching up with my Dad and then came…
One of my favourite songs! I tried to get some flowers to wear in my hair as we drove from Santa Rosa down to San Francisco on Interstate 5 but we had driven through Napa and Sonoma valleys and the only green plants around were vine leaves – everything else was pale yellow and burnt from the…
Watching the sunset over the Pacific Ocean – what an experience!
The Glorious Redwoods were awe inspiring. Trip to Eureka was less inspiring. #Redwoods #Eureka
The Three Capes OK, so I’m not entirely sure which three capes the Three Capes were but Cape Lookout State Park was beautiful – the sun was out, the water was deep blue and we got to see miles of sweeping waves from great height plus we went for a wonderful walk through coastal rainforest to a…
Our first glimpse of the Oregon coastline was at Astoria…we were so excited! And cold! Phew, the breeze of the pacific was a contrast to the baking hot Portland that we had left the evening before! An unfortunate incident The first stop we made was for gas in Astoria as we have learnt to grab gas whenever you…
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Traveling Europe for a couple of months and then the United Kingdom for half a year I figured, our budget wouldn’t last long if we’d stay in bed & breakfasts and hotels between our house sitting assignments. As we’d had a lovely couch surfing experience last year with a…
The lack of wifi down the Pacific coast in the US when sleeping in a car and the recovering from a long flight as well as a 700 mile drive down to the south of France all equals to good excuses as to why I’ve not updated you guys on what we’ve been up to,…
Our second workaway stop in Canada was west of Prince George, BC and was a former fishing resort on Nulki Lake but now owned and lived on by a family who just love the place and keep a collection of meat rabbits, meat chickens, horses, cow and dogs. The work was very different to Workaway…
We got the BC Ferries ferry to Vancouver Island today and are now in Victoria, the capital of BC (despite being off mainland BC). It’s a very pretty city with a harbour, colonial looking buildings and lots of restaurants looking over the harbour.
So here is the post about one of the most amazing drives in the world (according to the Rough Guide et al)…. It took me a while to work out how to write this post as I found the famous Icefields Parkway which runs through the Rocky Mountains between Lake Louise and Jasper beautiful but…
One of our suggested detours included going through the Fraser Canyon which made our journey longer and slower but showed us a completely different landscape, the forests disappeared and stark mountains surrounded us as we followed the Fraser River down to Hope.
