Tag: British Columbia
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NZ – Sweet As – Taking Flight
All photos taken on October 25, 26, 27, 2025. Oh H—, all bets are off when you cross the International Date Line. We checked out of the hotel and rather than leave our luggage in their lockup, headed upstairs to the breakfast room to sit with it until it was time to head to the…
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NZ – Sweet As – A Real Departure?
All photos taken on October 25, 2025. A faint sunrise greeted us over B.C. Place, when we opened the blinds this morning. Today was going to be a long day of waiting, interspersed with short periods of intense activity. Couple that with hotel checkout at 11 AM and a flight time of 7:30 PM, we…
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NZ – Sweet As – In a Holding Pattern
All photos taken on October 24, 2025. Against our better judgement, we tried breakfast in the hotel breakfast room. While the place was not crowded, the breakfast quality was underwhelming, as so many hotel breakfast bars are. The day was supposed to be very wet, so we opted for a short walk toward False Creek,…
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NZ – Sweet As – Finding Forest Time
All photos taken on November 23, 2025. As we left the Stanley Park Rose Garden, we knew our new hotel would be even further from Stanley Park and that the autumn weather would be iffy for the next two days, so we set off to walk to Beaver Lake, the Stanley Park Seawall, 2nd Beach…
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NZ – Sweet As – Biding Our Time
All photos taken on October 23, 2025. We awoke early as usual, realizing we would be on the move today, not to New Zealand, but to a new Vancouver hotel for 2 nights. The late flight cancellation meant I could not extend our stay at the Carmana. While still at home, I had reached out…
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NZ – Sweet As – A Rocky Start
All photos taken on October 22, 2025. Our day of departure for Vancouver had arrived. Unable to sleep, due to a mix of nervous anxiety and excitement, I was up early and checking my E-mails, when I saw it………….. Kia ora A, We’re sorry to advise, your flight NZ23 to Auckland due to depart on Thursday,…
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NZ – Sweet As – Full Circle
Photos taken during our recent excursion to New Zealand from October 27 to November 29, 2025. It seems only fitting that this new blog spot starts with a post about a trip to New Zealand, just as my first blog spot did more than 11 years ago. 11 years ago, this whole blog thing was…
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