We took a break from Germany to see a couple of other cities that were close by.  First, we went to Salzburg, Austria which to me is famous for one thing only: The Sound of Music.  It was a short two day visit that would have been more enjoyable if it was warm but I … More In and Out of Germany (Part 1)

We left the quiet city of Baden-Baden for the busy little Füssen.  The town itself wasn’t busy when we arrived in the middle of the afternoon, but it gets busy as it is the town that services perhaps the most famous castle in Europe: Neuschwanstein.  You might not be able to say it, but you’ve … More Castles and an Unfortunate History

As our travel adventure of nine months is coming to a close, I am taking a break from my regular posts to reflect on accommodation.  This year, Callum and I have slept in a lot of different places.  We slept in our van for several weeks, we enjoyed free accommodation from friends, acquaintances and family … More A Glimpse of Our Hostel Experience

I took German in high school instead of French because I didn’t like it very much in primary school and I was encouraged to take German instead because then I could learn to talk to my grandparents, sort of.  They speak a dialect of German called plautdietsch, or, Low German.  I did very well in … More Our German Tour Begins

Amsterdam was an even briefer visit for us and is the least amount of photos we’ve taken of any one place.  I want to return one day to experience Amsterdam in the late spring or summer because most of its charm is found outside.  While we were in Amsterdam, however, it snowed like the dickens … More Snow and Van Gogh

Before we left on our trip this year, Callum and I were really stuck on where to go for the last leg.  We went back and forth between Jordan and Egypt and Turkey and Western Europe and China and who knows where else.  We decided on Europe because I still haven’t been to much of … More In Bruges

After our New York adventures, we traveled across the pond where there lies a magical land where everybody speaks like they’re from “Downton Abbey”.  For real!  They have these charming accents and they’re all quite different and that’s truly what they sound like!  It was quite novel for me, a Canadian gal, as I’ve never … More London Calling

One of my favourite things which would have to be included in my own personal rendition of Maria Von Trapp’s song would have to be: seeing things in real life which I have seen in movies or television.  New York is the setting of pretty much every movie ever.  That’s a fact.  We did a … More Concrete Jungle

Exit stage left: warm weather.  Enter, stage right: an age of winter coats, hats, mittens, scarves, museums and monuments and relearning how to use the metro, or whatever the heck they call it in D.C. We haven’t had to use subways since, well, I literally cannot remember the last time.  It has been nice having … More Museums, Monuments and the Metro (Washington D.C.)

When I was 23 I found a way to get to Hawaii to spend some decent time there without needing thousands of dollars.  I volunteered as a mission builder at the University of the Nations which runs heaps of Youth With A Mission (YWAM) programs there.  I couldn’t afford to be a student myself—though that … More The Island of Hawaii (The Big Island)