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Pesuta

“I’m stranded here,” my mother said when I called her one evening last week. An eye infection in her good eye has left mom totally blind, in a sea of darkness in her room at Birchview Home. It made me think of Pesuta. She’s been stranded for ninety years, since 1928, the year mom was […]

Filed Under: Activities, Attractions, Countries
Tagged With: British Columbia, Canada, Haida Gwaii, Hiking, Queen Charlotte Islands, Tlell River

Fish Tales

One of our best experiences this year was on the OceanLight II in the remote Gwaii Haanas (the southern part of what used to be called the Queen Charlotte Islands). Onboard was a crew of three: Captain Tom; first mate Jennifer; and cook Luise. And four jubilado couples: Stewart, the eldest, and Denise; George (a […]

Filed Under: Activities, Attractions, Inspirations, Sleeping
Tagged With: British Columbia, Canada, Gwaii Haanas, Oceanlight II, Queen Charlotte Islands

Spot Prawn Paella

When we’re travelling and people hear where we’re from, we get one or the other of these responses: “Vancouver. I love that city. So beautiful. Such great seafood.” Or: “Vancouver. I’d love to go there. I hear it’s so beautiful. And that it has such great seafood.” One of our favourite local seafoods is spot […]

Filed Under: Attractions, Countries, Eating, Inspirations
Tagged With: British Columbia, Canada, Recipe, Seafood, Spring

La Peetch

“I was wondering if you two would be interested in going on some sort of small getaway—maybe two nights on a gulf island, or Salt Spring? Just something small where we could go to a café/do a little hike/play Scrabble/I could have a West Coast experience before heading East,” read Clare’s email late last August. […]

Filed Under: Attractions, Countries, Eating, Inspirations, Restaurants, Sleeping
Tagged With: Alice Waters, British Columbia, Canada, Julia Child, La Peetch, Recipe for Nectarine & Berry Cobbler, Salt Spring Island

When Will We Stop?

When will we be too old to travel independently? Who knows? Take our friend George. He had a knee replacement last year, cataract surgery this April and was waiting for open-heart surgery for a valve replacement and a bypass on an artery that was 60% blocked. We didn’t expect to be travelling with him this […]

Filed Under: Activities, Attractions, Countries, Restaurants
Tagged With: Aging, British Columbia, Canada, George, Okanagan, Oliver, Osoyoos, Wine

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