The Eagle has landed !!!

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Well the plane from Gatwick was delayed by an hour… I suppose fair enough when your going to be sitting in an aluminium tube for the next 10 hours!!!

Our seats we’re next to each other, but a very nice young Canadian lady was prepared to swap seats with my so a) Kim and I got to sit next to each other and b) I actually had better leg room… Well thank god the 3rd passenger in our little section was a lovely english lady flying out to Vancouver to stay with her daughter and luckily she had a sense of humour and with the three of us chatting and laughing the time actually didn’t go too badly.

Vancouver here we come….. Yes the eagle has landed and god help the Canadians!!! I mean do they really know what they’ve let themselves in for?  Hummm probably not :0)

We collected the car which is actually a lovely Ford Escape and headed off for Whistler.  An hour and a half later and we were STILL leaving Vancouver, or should I say trying to leave…  Heading for Whistler became heading for Seattle and my SatNav told me that Whistler was a 7 hour drive and over 480km!!  Hummmm I don’t think so….

We finally made it to our hotel in Whistler at 19:00 and I’m sitting trying to keep my eyes open whilst typing this as it’s either 05:20 on Friday morning UK time or only 21:20 on Thursday evening so my body doesn’t really know whether it’s coming or going…

Before I depart from the night, what are our first impressions?  Well quite simply absolutely breath-taking… STUNNING!!!

Nite nite all from two very tired travellers who have been on the go for over 25 hours now :0(

A Man’s Best Friend…

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People say we assign human values and emotions to our dogs. It’s called anthropomorphism, a word often used when an older couple get a dog because their child has gone off to University and so the dog becomes the child substitute…

Anyway I digress. If we assign human values to our dogs, then what’s it called when our dogs assign their values to us?

Are dogs smart? Generally speaking, hell yes!!! Especially working breeds like Border Collies and German Shepherds.

Well Michka hasn’t quite figured out what’s going on, but our big lad, Bailey, knows something isn’t quite right. After all the human members of “his pack” don’t spend hours putting all their possessions in these big black cases; They certainly don’t bag up 56 bags of dog food and put them in one BIG bag….

You have the joys of going on a holiday, having an adventure, but this is the other side as Kim and I have to leave our two beautiful German Shepherds in a kennels.

It’s a rather strange experience seeing we have never put any of our dogs in kennels. Bailey may have a passport but just flying him out there is about the same as both of our tickets there and back!!! :0) Pets and planes is a ridiculously expensive past time so we come to who do you trust to look after your beloved hairy hooligans? Well this task has fallen upon Val and Peter at the Kennels who I know will take great care of them.

It’s going to feel strange being in a foreign country without our dogs, but then again it’s only for 2 weeks. I’m sure we’ll manage…

Blog…. A What?

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Kim and I welcome you to something that apparently they call a blog.

An English friend on mine who lives in South Africa, Andrew Stevenson, has eventually persuaded me to create a blog.

So what is the purpose of our blog?

To be honest I’m not sure really, but I didn’t want to create a blog, just for the sake of it.  So our first experience into blogging will be whilst we are on our Canadian travels as we embark on the “holiday of a lifetime”.

So what else are we going to bore you, whoops sorry excite you, with?  Well we both have a great love for Photography and also a great love of German Shepherd dogs, of which we have 2.

All we ask for is a little patience while we figure this blogging business out and we hope you’ll join us in our travels to the stunning Canadian Rockies……