Archive for the 'Vacations' Category


Easter in Ottawa

This year for Easter (and my birthday,) Juliette and I decided to head to Ottawa to visit Sharlene and her children. We hadn’t seen Sharlene in about nine years, so the visit was long overdue. For those of you who do not know her, Sharlene and I have known each other for nearly twenty years. […]

Skiing in Sweden

Juliette and I are back safe from Sweden and finally settled in. After a very long series of flights, we started at the pure freeride camp in Abisko. Tired and jetlagged, we joined a great group of people to ski Friday morning. Despite being well above the arctic circle, it was warm and raining lightly […]

Off to Sweden

Our bags are nearly packed and Juliette and I are getting ready to head off to Sweden to meet Jennie & Rich for a grand spring skiing tour of Sweden. We are flying into Stockholm, then flying up to Kiruna above the arctic circle to join in on the Swedish pure freeride camp in Abisko. […]

Malaga to Toronto via Paris

I am posting my journals backdated to the day I wrote them, so read from bottom up if you have just arrived. Keep checking back, I have two weeks of journals to upload. Up at 4 am, taxis to the airport and we are on our way home. It has been a wonderful trip and […]

Tarifa to Malaga

I am posting my journals backdated to the day I wrote them, so read from bottom up if you have just arrived. Keep checking back, I have two weeks of journals to upload. After a leisurely breakfast at the café Azul, we packed our bags and began driving back towards Malaga. We dropped the bikes, […]