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Snowshoeing for Beginners – Brandywine Falls

Snowshoeing for Beginners – Brandywine Falls

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Hiking is incredibly fun in Vancouver, but I have been really keen to try the winter version, snowshoeing. Today, I finally had my chance! Marc, Tegan and I took a mini detour on our way home from Whistler to try snowshoeing. I had googled quite a few possibilities and had found an easy-sounding, pretty place to explore called Brandywine Falls provincial park. This is only 15 minutes drive south from Whistler, so it’s an easy stop-off on the way home….

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You can't kiss with goggles!
Learning to Ski in Vancouver – Mount Seymour

Learning to Ski in Vancouver – Mount Seymour

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This is a review about learning to ski on Mount Seymour. It has always seemed to me that most people that love skiing are people that first learned when they were children, and so have always been able to slide down slopes gracefully. It just doesn’t seem like the kind of thing that any sensible adult would like to learn from scratch. At the same time, I love mountains so it seems a shame that I’ve never had the pleasure…

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Vancouver Sights – Nitobe Memorial Garden in Autumn

Vancouver Sights – Nitobe Memorial Garden in Autumn

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I’ve already written one post about the beautiful Nitobe Memorial Garden. It is a small slice of Japan on the edge of Vancouver. I loved seeing it in the summer, so I’ve kept going back as the seasons changed. The photos in this post are spread over October, November and the start of December. Some of you may have noticed that I have posted far fewer adventures over the last month. This is basically because Christmas shopping, a nasty fever…

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Japanese Food Guide: Everything you should try in Japan!

Japanese Food Guide: Everything you should try in Japan!

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I looove Japanese food. How could anyone not love it!? I was incredibly lucky with my initiation into this amazing cuisine. I first moved to Japan as a volunteer assistant language teacher when I was 19. For six months, I lived with three amaaazing host families. For the first two months I managed to try something completely new every day! Since then, I lived in Japan for a further 3 years, but I am still finding plenty of new, interesting…

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