Having just reached the one year anniversary of my arrival on the shores of the less prominent half of my ancestral heritage, a quote from this blog’s friendly host made me realise that I have become just that - lost in my Canadian wonderland.

Whereas living in London led to me to jet setting between countries, collecting stamps in my passport and coming up with entertaining anecdotes or observations about different cultures, living in Vancouver has left me spending my spare time trekking around the great outdoors, doing lots of active stuff and seeing some of this beautiful country (along with trying to pronounce beer with an “r” ).

The only problem with all of this great outdoors goodness is that it doesn’t make for particularly interesting stories write; unless of course anyone’s interested in highly repetitive tales of me spending my winter hooning down snow covered mountains over and over again. And, while it’ll take quite a while for me to get bored of seeing majestic mountain ranges and towering pine trees I’m pretty sure that my repertoire of adjectives would also become pretty repetitive pretty quickly.

The upshot to all this is that from the perspective of my other favourite hobby where words are unnecessary, taking pictures, there is no shortage of inspiration. Although some people who’ve travelled with me would find it hard to believe, I’ve managed to take even more pictures here in Canada then while travelling other parts of the world.

So for anyone who’s interested in seeing rather than reading about how I’ve been occupying my time, butter up the popcorn, turn down the lights and crank up the projector; here’s a years worth of holiday photo slideshows that you can watch without having pretend to be interested in my accompanying stories about all fascinating people I meet and funny things that happened.

…and then of course I’m still playing lots of cricket.

By the way, if anyone is uses Flickr I’m always keen to add new contacts and see other peoples pics….