On our third day in the Rocky Mountains we went back in to the park to do another hike, this time a steep uphill climb called Deer Mountain, around 6.4 miles there and back and about 1400 ft elevation gain to reach the peak at about 10,000 ft. We headed out early so we could get the walk done before it was busy and to get back home for lunch if possible. We didn’t pass many other hikers on route…
After a long travel day on Monday we finally arrived in the US, flying from Heathrow to Denver airport which took around 9 hours – looks like we just missed the chaos with air traffic control and loads of flight cancellations on Tue and Wed this week across the UK, so we were lucky! When we landed we had a pretty long drive to get to the town we’re staying in which is called Estes Park, and is right outside…
This will be the last post of our trip as we are flying home today, but here’s our personal highlights from the Eastern portion of the trip – following on from our Western highlights if you want to see those too. We had 9 stops in total and did so much, it was a bit hard to choose, but here you go. Lucy’s picks Best stop This was super tough to call as they’ve all been great, but for the…
We are now back in the US for the final part of our trip. We are staying in a small town called Richmond, in Vermont. For those of you following the blog this randomly will be the third time we have stayed in a town called Richmond on this trip, the first one being in Vancouver, and the second one being in Boston. Anyway, it was a fairly long drive from Quebec City, including a rather long queue at the…
On our final day in Quebec City we decided to rent some bikes from the Old Town area and cycle along one of the city’s many cycle paths, following the river up to some nearby water falls we had wanted to visit. It took us around an hour to cycle to Montmorency Falls on a pretty hot afternoon, but it was a pretty flat route and a good way to get around. The falls themselves were really impressive. We didn’t…
We are now in Quebec City, although it feels like we are in France such is the language the majority of people are speaking here – hence the blog post title which I thought I would translate into French for those who know French. It is very much what I imagine walking around the streets of Paris would be like such as cobbled streets, cafes with bright awnings and lots of quirky shops and galleries. Can you recognise what film the…
After a few days in Moncton, we broke up the long journey to Quebec City with a couple of nights stay in a place called Grand Falls. As the name suggests there is a large waterfalls here but as we arrived quite late in the afternoon we checked in at our motel (weird to not be in an Airbnb now!) and then headed out to a local pizza place for some food, before tracking down the only brewery in town….
After we left Halifax in Nova Scotia we headed inland and made our way to Moncton. The reason we chose this town was for its proximity to Kouchibouguac National Park which is about an hour away from Moncton. The drive was fine and the only thing of note was what we saw at one of the gas stations we stopped at, which was a ‘Bark Park’, a designated area for you to take your dogs, which made us think of…
We’ve spent the last 3 days in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the most easterly point of our Canadian trip. We had a pretty long 4 hour drive from our previous stop in Saint John to get here, but we had 3 full days to look around the area while we were here. On the way we made a brief stop at Rockwood State Park on the way out of Saint John which was a lovely park with a large lake and…
We returned to Canada a few days ago having really enjoyed our time in Maine and NE USA. Our first stop has been in Saint John, New Brunswick, famous for its Moosehead beer. We first sampled Moosehead when we visited Canada 13 years ago whilst on honeymoon and we had not forgotten it. You can buy the lager in the UK (online) but you can’t get their other beers so we were keen to get to the brewery…and we didn’t…