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Loving Japan – Tokyo and Kyoto
We continue to have an incredible time in Japan – such a fascinating country. Since the last post, we had a couple of more days in Tokyo and then we took the Shinkansen (“fast train”) to Kyoto and we’ve now been here a few days. We are lucky to have the Decaria family, neighbours from…
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Our first international stop – Tokyo Japan
It’s hard to even know where to start on our visit to Tokyo as we’ve experienced so much since we’ve been here and loved it all. Tokyo is an amazing city and given its metro population is 40M, we are stunned that Tokyo is so clean, so safe, so bike friendly and with an incredible…
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Guest speed skating in BC
This is just a quick post for our speed skating friends ⛸️💙 The boys didn’t want to get too far behind their skating teammates, so Nicholas and Zachary brought their speed skates to BC in the hopes of getting some training in here. They were disappointed to be missing their end of season races because…
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New lifetime record: 17 skis in a row
We’ve now been at SilverStar 17 days and I have been able to do 17 days of skiing. It was a mix of downhill and cross country and some days were short skis or only half days, but this is indeed way beyond a record for me, AND the record in the family. Steve was…
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The start of our family sabbatical!
Leaving Toronto was no easy feat! We are renting out our house so that meant the whole house had to be cleared of all personal items and left in tip-top shape. The kids all wrapped up school for the rest of the school year. Nicholas finished exams at the end of January and enjoyed many…
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We are leaving soon!
Hard to believe we are leaving in almost exactly a month. Still so much to do and I have migrated into a mode of mild planning panic, but the flights are (mostly) booked so everything else will just need to fall into place. For those of you not totally up to speed on what we are…
Our Family Sabbatical Blog
The 2024 Lake Waslander family trip around the world
Our Family Sabbatical Blog 