Welcome to my blog!

I have been living in beautiful Vancouver for over 3 years now (!!) and have been thinking of making a blog for quite some time, but just never gotten round to it. I want to show the good things that go along with living in a new city on the other side of the world - the new experiences, people and places, and also the bad things - homesickness, missing my friends, family and pet dog Lucy.

I have visited many places here in BC, including Victoria, Sproat Lake and Tofino on Vancouver Island, Salt Spring Island, Whistler up the Sea-to-Sky Highway and Kelowna, Big White, Osoyoos and Oliver in the BC Interior. We have also driven down to Bellingham, Seattle, Forks and Port Angeles in Washington and Cannon Beach, Seaside and Portland in Oregon.

I have also taken advantage of Vancouver's location in North America to travel to Las Vegas twice, Cancun on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, and also back to Brasil to visit friends and family.

I have also learnt some not so nice things about Vancouver. I'm not a fan of the rainy and cold winters, the horrendous traffic, the gangs, high price of car insurance, $60 per month 'free' medical and too many chain shops and restaurants.

I do have some exciting things coming up this year though! My boyfriend's parents have recently purchased a camping site up in Harrison Hot Springs, so I'm sure we will be spending lots of time there this summer. My sister is coming over to visit in August so I will be travelling to some places with her and then I get to go home again for christmas, my birthday and one of my best friend's wedding.

Well, I think that's a good summary of what my blog is going to be about. Please feel free to leave me a comment :)