Expedition Canada

New Brunswick and the Atlantic The Atlantic - my lovely legs are on the left Monday August 11th and we have dipped our toes (and paws) in the Atlantic; we have made it, West Coast to East Coast!   I was musing when we last dipped our toes in the Atlantic.  It was some years ago, probably in Rock, Cornwall, in 2020.  The place where Jack first learnt to swim about nine years ago.  He's been swimming ever since.  It was just as cold this side!  Fifty three kilometres shy of 11,000, 70 days, 28 campsites, 7 provinces (two to go) and lots of other useless statistics I haven't yet calculated.  I might leave the fuel cost until last! Bay of Fundy, our last three night stop in New Brunswick (NB) close to Alma, is just lovely.  We were told the campground was full, but it didn't feel like it.  Another well planned campground amongst trees.    The beach on the edge of the park had about a dozen people as we started exploring on Monday a...

Granville Island Jack checking out urban Van Wed Apr 28th The day started trying to work out how to change the Apple App store country location on my iPhone, so we could download local Apps that were barred from being added to a UK configured phone.  After much research, discussions with Apple and trial settings the project was abandoned.   Changing you country location, can only be done after you have unsubscribed from Apple Music.  You then lose all your music.  I assume this is for copyright reasons. As part of setting up the country you have to enter a local address.  No problem, we will use our rental address.  As you go through the process of adding a payment card to the store, you discover that the Paypal or Credit Card address, has to match your residential address in Canada.  Except we don't have a Canadian payment card (or bank account) yet. Lobster Brioche from Popina So after several hours of trying to resolve this and ending up back a...